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fire away
verb
informal(intr, adverb; often imperative) to begin to speak or to ask questions
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Idioms and Phrases
Start to talk or ask questions. For example, You've got more questions? Well, fire away. This expression originated in the 1600s as a military command to discharge firearms and was being transferred to other actions by the late 1700s. Also see fire off.
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Example Sentences
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“It’s a miracle that this time the wind shifted at the last second and blew the fire away from our hill,” he said.
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Should they now drop all restrictions and let the Ukrainians fire away at will with everything they’ve got?
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“Fire away and swing, get the most distance I can on a few of those holes.”
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They managed to keep the fire away from nearby homes, containing it to some empty plots of land.
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"We kept the fire away from homes," Stathis Topalidis, deputy mayor of Menidi, told state broadcaster ERT on Wednesday.
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