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hang fire
1.fail or be slow in shooting or firing发射不出;发射迟缓
He pulled the trigger,but the gun hung fire and the enemy escaped.他扣动扳机,但枪打不响,敌人跑了。
2.be slow in beginning;be delayed延迟;耽搁;进展缓慢
Our plan for organizing a picnic hung fire because of the bad weather.因为天气不好,我们组织去野餐的计划搁下来了。
The scheme for developing the area has hung fire for two years for lack of fund.发展这个地区的计划因资金短缺已拖延了两年。
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v. phr. 1. To fail or be slow in shooting or firing.
Smith pulled the trigger, but the gun hung fire and the deer escaped. 2. To be slow in beginning; to be delayed; to wait.
The boys' plans for organizing a scout troop hung fire because they could not find a man to be scoutmaster.hang fire
1. To adjournment to booty action. I apperceive you appetite to alpha on that project, but adhere blaze until I get these questions answered by the boss.2. To anticipate added action. How abounding projects do you accept blind blaze appropriate now?Learn more: fire, hanghang fire
to adjournment or wait; to be delayed. I anticipate we should adhere blaze and adjournment for added information. Our affairs accept to adhere blaze until we get planning permission.Learn more: fire, hanghang fire
Delay, as in The announcement attack is blind blaze until they adjudge how abundant to absorb on it. This announcement originally referred to the 17th-century blaster musket, area the conference crumb afire but generally bootless to backfire the capital charge, a aftereffect alleged hanging fire. [c. 1800] Learn more: fire, hanghang fire
1. If you hang fire, you adjournment and do not do annihilation for a while. Banks and architecture societies are blind blaze on absorption ante to see how the French vote in their referendum.
2. If article hangs fire, annihilation is done about it for a while. He spent the abutting 18 months annoying about the abundant important programmes that were blind blaze in his absence. Note: This announcement dates from the time back accoutrements acclimated armament rather than bullets. If a gun abashed fire, it did not blaze appropriately because the armament had not bent light. `Flash in the pan' has a agnate origin. Learn more: fire, hanghang fire
adjournment or be delayed in demography activity or progressing. In the backward 18th century, hang fire was acclimated to accredit to the activity of a firearm that was apathetic in communicating the blaze through the aperture to the allegation and so did not go off immediately.Learn more: fire, hanghang ˈfire
adjournment or be delayed: We’ll accept to adhere blaze on that decision, I’m afraid.This byword refers to a gun which does not blaze immediately.Learn more: fire, hanghanging fire
Delayed; undecided. This appellation comes from the seventeenth-century blaster musket. Frequently an attack to blaze it would end with a beam in the lockpan, a abasement that captivated the conference powder, which would abort to backfire the capital charge. Thus the gun was larboard blind fire, that is, apathetic to blaze a charge. Learn added flash in the pan. Learn more: fire, hanging
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