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  1. 29 nov. 2012 · He pointed the gun at the door. The world will end at noon. Let us compare the modes: She threw the ball to him. (She meant to give the ball to him) She threw the ball at him. (She did not mean to give him the ball but to use it as a projectile onto him). He directed the man to the door. He directed the gun at the door.

  2. 24 mars 2016 · 3. "Pew! Pew!" is a phonetic representation that native (American) English speakers make to simulate the sound and explosive nature of gunfire. Young boys typically made (still make) this sound when simulating gun battles, initially simulating firearms, and over time evolving to also represent science fiction weapons.

  3. The baseball origin is probably correct, according to Lighter. As early as 1929 the NYT was writing "A player's arm is his gun or his wing. A good gun means that the possessor has a strong arm. That message also includes this snippet: Then a quote from something in 1973 "Guns--the biceps and triceps part of the arm.

  4. 16 avr. 2011 · 4. It's related to usage. Shooted is used when speaking of plants sending out shoots (My lilies have shooted). It's usually intransitive. Shot is used in most other contexts. It can be transitive (I shot the sheriff) or intransitive (The kids shot out of class as soon as the bell rang). Share.

  5. 5 oct. 2015 · Goose dies, Maverick feels guilty, and thereafter shies away from dangerous situations. At the end of the film, Maverick has to decide whether to run from an aerial dogfight or engage the enemy. He has kept Gooses's dogtags and grasps them saying, "Talk to me, Goose." Maverick takes courage and engages the enemy, thus saving the day.

  6. 20 mars 2014 · 1. Early firearms were fired by applying a burning object to a hole that opened into the interior of the gun. Firing was the term used because one would literally apply fire. Since then this has been replaced with various methods including a Flint (flintlock) cap, and modern firearms use a primer in the cartridge.

  7. 11 nov. 2013 · The original meaning of either accidentally shooting yourself in the foot with a gun or deliberately avoiding military combat by self inflicting a severe wound seems to have been lost or fogotten. Perhaps the idiom, to shoot oneself in the foot, has overtaken a much older saying which has slowly grown out of favour and is becoming obsolete.

  8. 16 janv. 2013 · 985 3 13 20. 9. This should probably be translated as "To shoot sparrows with a cannon". Sparrows are small but cannonballs are huge and simply obliterate tiny birds. – user21497. Jan 16, 2013 at 11:58. 6. Yeah, as an American, I don't think the idiom is lost translated as "To shoot sparrows with a cannon." We have almost identical idioms ...

  9. 2 juil. 2021 · In the real world no rabbit is ever going to be able to use a gun even if it could get hold of one but Bugs, being an anthropomorphised cartoon character, most certainly could. Popular cartoon characters like Bugs and Elmer insinuate themselves into the general culture to such an extent that they need little, if any, explanation when they are referred to like this.

  10. 22 nov. 2017 · In a gun or firearm which uses loose gunpowder: a mechanism by means of which the charge is exploded. Now chiefly hist. OED. In the case of flintlocks, for example, the lock struck flint; in the case of percussion locks, which succeeded flintlocks, the lock struck a percussion cap (a development enabled by the discovery and use of mercury ...

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