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miss fire

  1. Fail to achieve the anticipated result, as in Recycling cardboard seemed like a good idea but it missed fire. First recorded in 1727, this phrase originally described a firearm failing to go off and has been used figuratively since the mid-1800s.



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“For more than a month, it was humanly impossible to miss ‘Fire and Fury,’” Rubin wrote in his memoir “51Թs and Music,” published earlier this year.

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Woman, six children die in Miss. fire: A woman and her six children died when a fire destroyed their home early Saturday in central Mississippi, authorities said.

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The match might be a burned one, it might miss fire, or go out before he had an opportunity to kindle the leaves, or the leaves themselves might be too damp to burn.

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"That's just where you'll miss fire," the other rejoined.

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But the words are quoted in a hundred books and pamphlets, and are used like theological revolvers which never miss fire.

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