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hanging fire
vb. (present participle of hang fire English)
Usage examples of "hanging fire".
An order, if you please, is an order, and this one has been hanging fire since '39.
We'd go to visit Henrietta and her Minnie, who was living these days at George Roe's boardinghouse there at Caxambas, and he got to know Tant's sister Josie Jenkins, who was kind of what you might call hanging fire.
In Europe the crisis seemed to be easing off a little, the street demonstrations hanging fire while assorted commissions and committees attempted to hammer out compromises.
It will be four or five days before I can wind up a few things hanging fire.