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DictionarySeehanghanging fire
hang fire1. To wait to take action. I know you want to start on that project, but hang fire until I get these questions answered by the boss.2. To await further action. How many projects do you have hanging fire right now?See also: fire, hanghanging fireDelayed; undecided. This term comes from the seventeenth-century flintlock musket. Frequently an attempt to fire it would end with a flash in the lockpan, a depression that held the priming powder, which would fail to explode the main charge. Thus the gun was left hanging fire, that is, slow to fire a charge. See also flash in the pan. See also: fire, hanginghanging
hanging A method of judicial execution or of committing suicide. Judicial hanging by the drop method causes separation (disarticulation) of the upper neck vertebrae and severance of the spinal cord. Suicidal hanging usually causes death by strangulation. |