I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cover photo/shot (=picture on the front cover)
▪ The picture became the July 4th cover shot.
a fashion shoot (=an occasion when photographs are taken of fashion models)
▪ She was asked to star with top model Naomi Campbell in a fashion shoot.
a price shoots up/soars/rockets (=increases quickly by a large amount)
▪ The price of oil soared in the 1970s.
a shooting pain (=a severe pain that goes from one part of your body to another)
▪ The shooting pains in her arms and legs slowly began to die away.
a shooting/stabbing incident (=when someone is shot or stabbed)
▪ Two men died today in a shooting incident.
a warning shot
▪ Troops fired warning shots over the heads of demonstrators.
be arrested/imprisoned/shot etc as a spy
▪ Anyone caught working with the Resistance was shot as a spy.
big shot
▪ His father’s a big shot and he thinks he is, too.
by a long way/shotinformal (also by a long chalk British English) (= used when something is much better, quicker, cheaper etc)
▪ It was his best performance this year, by a long way.
cheap shot
▪ His remark was a cheap shot at short people.
clay pigeon shooting
drop shot
jump shot
make/shoot a film
▪ Sutton has been making a film for Australian television.
make/shoot a movie
▪ The children have made their own movies for the contest.
not by a long way/shotinformal (also not by a long chalk British English) (= not at all or not nearly)
▪ He had not told Rory everything, not by a long shot.
photo shoot
pot shot
▪ The boy took a pot shot at a pigeon with his air gun.
shoot a glance (=look extremely quickly)
▪ He shot a glance at Ellen, making sure she understood him.
shoot craps (=to play this game)
shoot down a plane
▪ The guerrillas shot down an Israeli fighter plane.
shoot sb dead
▪ He was jailed for life for shooting dead a burglar.
shoot to fame (=become famous very suddenly)
▪ She shot to fame as a result of her victory in the Olympics.
shooting gallery
shooting match
▪ We’re having a big church wedding with bridesmaids, a pageboy – the whole shooting match.
shooting star
shooting stick
shoot/play pool
▪ We went to the pub and played pool.
shoot/rise/zoom to stardom (=become famous very quickly)
▪ Ellen shot to stardom as a model last year.
shot put
▪ an Olympic shot putter
skeet shooting
sliced...shot
▪ With an open goal in front of him, Wiltord sliced his shot wide of the left post.
the hunting/shooting/fishing season
▪ Autumn was traditionally the hunting season.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
▪ Prune grape vines before the sap begins to flow again by cutting all side shoots back to one or two buds.
▪ If Charlie did attack at night, you could never see what you were shooting back at.
▪ The baddies of course shoot back costing you time and points.
▪ When it gets to the last line the beam shoots back to the top.
▪ There was nothing to shoot back at.
▪ The school where police learn to shoot back.
▪ He shot the smoke, which shot back, then he took refuge behind a pile of stones.
dead
▪ A local lawyer who took up their case was shot dead in January.
▪ Baruch Goldstein shot dead 29 worshipers and wounded dozens more before he was killed by others at the shrine.
▪ The Parachute regiment shot dead 13 unarmed Catholics on an illegal civil rights demonstration in Londonderry on January 30, 1972.
▪ The Mafia struck again on Saturday when a detective was shot dead near Agrigento in Sicily.
▪ Last month a soldier's wife was shot dead near Dortmund.
▪ Maria Martin was shot dead in Malaga.
▪ In the initial clash the police allegedly shot dead five local people.
▪ The following day police officers shot dead six independence supporters and two passersby during a clash in the southeastern town of Merauke.
down
▪ Payton, failed to return and was shot down by the A.A. defences at Hassani.
▪ It must have more than compensated for being shot down, or blown to bits.
▪ Tanimizu is said to have shot down 32 enemy aircraft.
▪ He ordered fighters to shoot down Hassans Boeing.
▪ To this day, I fear the crowds on planes more than the fanatics who might want to shoot down those crowds.
▪ That day also, Bert Hall shot down a plane and was wounded.
off
▪ If you want to survive, you shivering ninny, you might as well shoot off your big toe.
▪ His face had been shot off.
▪ Ali shot off to find them.
▪ But nothing outside escaped Two guns were disabled by having their muzzles shot off.
▪ Then without warning a green flare exploded, which had to have been shot off by one of the fishermen.
▪ The yoyo gave off a fluted, whistling sound as it descended, and sparks shot off inside it.
▪ Needless to say, the top subsequently shoots off.
▪ We were just firing in the dark too much, just shooting off our guns.
up
▪ While wine consumption has dropped, demand for beer and spirits has shot up.
▪ The indexes came crashing down, making losers out of many neophyte capitalists gambling that prices would shoot up for ever.
▪ Then they were off again wheeling around the perimeter shooting up buildings and yet more aircraft.
▪ All those crack shits shooting up the streets?
▪ This plant has shot up 21ins in 3 days.
▪ Varney shot up out of his chair; kicked it aside and flew out the door.
▪ His admiration for Fouchard shot up.
▪ Fists shot up, some holding dinner pails in the air like flags.
■ NOUN
arm
▪ Male speaker Pain was shooting up my arm.
▪ And as we did a charge shot up my arm.
▪ He shot out his right arm and landed a punch on Lorrimer's nose.
▪ Two hours and he brings me the garbage after he shoots his arm full.
▪ It felt as if red-hot needles were shooting up her arm.
▪ Dennis Cormier said that when police arrived at the scene, they found Toch had been shot in the upper arm.
▪ At my first touch it shot away over my arm.
arrow
▪ He soared up over her and shot her with his arrows at no risk to himself.
▪ Both were then shot with arrows by her pursuers.
▪ They shot poisoned arrows from behind the thick bushes.
▪ She stood still and fitted an arrow to her bow and shot.
▪ I shot three more arrows into the same spot and saw the foot re-treat beneath her long skirt.
▪ In one account, a rural policeman shot an arrow into his leg.
▪ I bad shot that arrow and pierced her shield.
▪ As he looked upon her it was as if he had shot one of his arrows into his own heart.
bolt
▪ For the Crown Prince was far from having shot his second bolt.
▪ Tommy shot the bolts on the tailgate and let it drop.
▪ Og course that may mean we're shutting the door after the horse has shot it s bolt.
▪ He got up, as if he had shot his last bolt.
▪ Waller'd shot the bolt and lowered his eyes.
▪ She shot bolt upright, pulse racing, mouth dry, and then she remembered the owls.
▪ They've shot their bolt Geoffrey; they've let you get away.
▪ She shot the bolt and then fetched her toilet things.
film
▪ I shot film of them carrying Tho away.
▪ Similarly, there is now available a fundamental choice between shooting on film or video.
▪ Claire Raskind, publicist for Fish Tale Productions, which just finished shooting the film, declined comment.
▪ They had shot their own film and it somehow got mislaid.
▪ The students came up with the stories, molded the characters and then shot the short films.
▪ His criticism will fuel controversy about the book on the island, where a film starring Nicolas Cage is being shot.
▪ This afternoon I shot film on Highway 1, in a village south of Neak Luong.
foot
▪ This is another classic example of our ability to shoot ourselves in the feet.
▪ So they shot themselves in the foot.
▪ A classic case of shooting ourselves in the foot, the chairman, Sir Alan Cockshaw, admitted ruefully yesterday.
▪ But at the end of the day, they could end up shooting themselves in the foot.
▪ The only real hospital case was a travelling salesman who had been shot through the foot.
▪ Conceptually, the worst crime committed here is that the story shoots itself in the foot by making the political too personal.
▪ Yet when Labour's prospects are rosiest, it always seems to shoot itself in the foot.
▪ Red Death shot from your feet, fouling the air with its stench of rotting meat and rat feces.
glance
▪ She drew in a deep breath, shooting a glance at the large clock opposite her, wishing the interview was over.
▪ Ryker shot an angry glance at Donna and mouthed something she couldn't make out.
▪ She shot a worried glance down to the bottom of the yard.
▪ The team shot quizzical glances at their new addition but made no move to get rid of him.
▪ Miguel shot him a quick glance.
▪ He shot her a quick glance and pulled into the side of the road.
▪ Miguel exhaled, shooting a glance at the car.
gun
▪ Once I used a gun to shoot a wild animal.
▪ Hitchhikers pulled a gun and shot at him.
▪ The new ships will have two sets of rapid-fire radar-controlled multi-barrel guns to shoot down missiles.
▪ We were members of a gun club; we shot there regularly.
▪ Get a gun and shoot it?
▪ Quickly, I took a gun, and shot one of the animals.
head
▪ He was toting the gun for a purpose - to shoot her through the head or knock her unconscious, or both.
▪ The 21-year-old gunman then shot himself in the head.
▪ Of 23 bodies she saw, all had been shot in the head with their hands tied behind their backs.
▪ Dead three days, shot in the head, probably while kneeling.
▪ You'd been shot in the head, but your legs were still plodding.
▪ LoEshe, who was sitting in the back seat, was shot in the head.
▪ He had been shot through the head.
▪ About 9: 30 that night Yelayne Arancibia was shot in the head as she sat at a computer in the apartment.
leg
▪ I righted myself and pain shot up my right leg as I put weight on it.
▪ But his self-image had become so out of phase with reality that he wanted to shoot his own leg.
▪ Then he shot his legs up into the sky and slid down without a splash.
▪ Officers then shot Mao in the leg several times and he collapsed.
▪ The manager was shot in the leg and badly beaten up.
▪ She was draped across a bundle of straw, not quite dead, shot in the legs and stomach.
▪ A man was shot in the leg and money was stolen.
▪ Reynaldo tried to escape into the medical clinic and was shot in the leg.
look
▪ He shot me a look brimful of amusement, then drained his cup and sat back in the chair.
▪ Mandy shot her a look of pure astonishment.
▪ He shot me a worried look.
▪ Lily shot a quick horrified look up and down the road.
▪ Rob shot a look at Loulse, who smiled.
▪ Muriel shot a look at Lily's downcast profile.
▪ His wife shot him a look.
movie
▪ He makes a habit of this whenever he shoots a movie somewhere.
▪ Eventually, he coerces several of them onstage to shoot a silent movie, somehow selecting precisely the right individuals.
▪ Thirty-three years later, Spielberg is still shooting movies, though on a much grander scale.
plane
▪ That day also, Bert Hall shot down a plane and was wounded.
▪ The accidental shooting down of a plane carrying civilians would be a disaster for Western policy.
range
▪ Massenga pulled a Mini-Uzi from inside his overall and shot Sibele at point-blank range.
▪ An hour later when the police left, three youths were dead; they had been shot at close range.
▪ David Byrne fired in a cross from the right and Grant shrugged off Richard Gough to shoot home from close range.
▪ The sound of shooting from the firing range was frequent.
▪ The 18-year-old was shot at close range outside a post office in Exeter, Devon.
▪ Most of them were shot at close range.
▪ He traded gunfire with them for hours last April before they forced their way in and shot him at point-blank range.
video
▪ Suppose, for instance, you have shot some video on a harbour-front.
▪ Similarly, there is now available a fundamental choice between shooting on film or video.
▪ Our stuff was incredibly ugly, shot on video and very cheap.
▪ The video was shot by renowned photographer Herb Ritts who has a history of shooting sexy videos.
■ VERB
start
▪ I started shooting, then, to prove the gods were really smiling on me, Gary Smart appeared in shot.
▪ Lee said it is unknown if the gunman attempted to rob the couple before he started shooting.
▪ Each side blamed the other for starting the shooting.
▪ Pippen started shooting Tuesday for the first time since he underwent surgery on his right elbow Jan. 29.
▪ Remember to pre-swing before starting to shoot - no hose-piping.
▪ Suddenly, they started shooting at him, so he began to run.
▪ The only light was the faint-red glow of our own instrument panel-un-til Charlie started shooting.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a 10 to 1 shot/50 to 1 shot etc
a gangland killing/murder/shooting etc
a good/bad etc shot
▪ But Nogai's a good shot.
▪ Ed Kelley was a good shot.
▪ He made a good shot from there and holed a three-foot putt for a quadruple-bogey eight.
▪ If I hit a bad shot, I try to minimize its effect.
▪ Klingler made it clear at the end of 1996 that he wanted a better shot at moving up the depth chart.
▪ That much was the least expected of a hunter who had made a bad shot.
▪ They have a better shot at claiming the governorship.
▪ Tom played a bad shot out of the bunker, and he does no more than charge straight at this press guy.
a shot across the bows/a warning shot (across the bows)
a shot in the arm
▪ The new factory will give the local economy a real shot in the arm.
▪ Coming back will be a shot in the arm.
▪ In 1922 it received a shot in the arm through a large subsidy from the Central Committee.
▪ It now had the effect of a shot in the arm.
▪ It was like a shot in the arm for us, and our tiredness fell away.
▪ On the Conservative side, the decision of Callaghan not to hold an election came as a shot in the arm.
a shot in the dark
▪ Let's see if she's at Fiona's house. It's a shot in the dark, but we've got to start looking somewhere.
▪ My answer to the last question was a complete shot in the dark.
▪ That was a shot in the dark, but judging from the expression on his face it struck home.
be a long shot
▪ It does no harm to write to the nearest local residents and businesses, but generally this is a long shot.
▪ It was a long shot, but he might have been calling from his usual hotel in Lagos.
▪ It was a long shot, of course, but if she looked carefully she might find something.
▪ It was a long shot, very long.
▪ This is a long shot, but I still want to try it.
▪ We are long shots and we are approaching it that way.
▪ Well, actually, he wanted two things, but he knew the second was a long shot.
be shooting/firing blanks
be shot through with sth
▪ All the stories were shot through with Hurley's dry, gentle humor.
▪ fine silk shot through with gold threads
▪ And his parents' letters were shot through with such worry.
▪ Many of the women's purity associations were shot through with similar class divisions.
▪ Statement is shot through with feeling in the long, passionately detailed account of the mutiny.
▪ This is a genuine kind of knowledge, but it is shot through with subjectivity.
▪ Unfortunately the timber industry is shot through with economic inefficiency.
▪ Violence is endemic and Thomson fashions a stylish off-beat thriller which occasionally meanders but is shot through with genuine menace.
▪ Yet that concept of secular potential was shot through with particular assumptions.
be/get/want shot of sb/sth
▪ Helen couldn't wait to get shot of me.
▪ If you want to get shot of it through DataEase, it depends on what version you're using.
big shot
▪ a meeting of insurance-industry big shots
▪ Among Western Conference big shots, only San Antonio seems trouble-free right now.
▪ And they used to race some of the big shots in New Bedford.
▪ He will be a big shot one day, she thinks.
▪ I gave my opinion but, of course, it was a big shot so early in the game.
▪ Malone, however, choked when it came to making his two biggest shots of the game.
▪ This is a matter between the big shots.
▪ You see, all the artists wanted to be big shots.
blame/shoot the messenger
▪ Criticising Alan for saying how well scum are playing is a bit like shooting the messenger who brings bad news.
crack shot
▪ A crack shot and a notorious gambler.
▪ And of course the doctor is a crack shot...
▪ Dirk, nearly sixteen, is a crack shot.
▪ The book centres on young blonde Donna, a crack shot with a.45 Magnum.
drive-by shooting/killing
▪ A family of illegal aliens is peppered with shotgun pellets in a drive-by shooting.
▪ A second drive-by shooting March 19 was linked to another gang.
▪ All we get is this stereotyping of violence that I believe leads to drive-by shootings.
▪ As far as we know, nobody ever pulled a drive-by shooting from a golf cart.
▪ G., was killed March 9 in a Los Angeles drive-by shooting.
▪ One person died in a drive-by shooting and several were injured.
▪ The last attack was a drive-by shooting about 3 a. m. June 1.
▪ Your son was killed in a drive-by shooting.
give sth your best shot
▪ I'm not promising I'll succeed, but I'll give it my best shot.
▪ Hopefully he can recover and regain his test place and give it his best shot.
▪ I'd have given it my best shot, and that was all anyone could demand from me.
▪ I just have a feeling that we have given it our best shot.
▪ The band gave it their best shot, until the arrival of the blue meanies put an end to the proceedings.
▪ You were never entirely safe from prying fingers in Chinatown, but I had to give it my best shot.
hanging/shooting etc is too good for sb
like a shot
▪ She slammed the phone down and was out of the room like a shot.
▪ He asked Jeter if he'd like a shot at it.
▪ I'd tell you like a shot if we ever got into a real jam.
▪ It is not a direct stimulant, like a shot of adrenaline.
▪ She'd be off to Legoland like a shot, to see that caretaker, if Henry said anything.
▪ Sometimes they fall over one another, like shots from a rapid-fire camera.
▪ The great majority, once they breach the system and hear the telltale whine, are out of there like a shot.
▪ Travis had left the door open - she seized her chance, and was through it like a shot.
long shot
▪ City officials and securities experts think the activists are betting on a long shot.
▪ He had not told Rory everything, not by a long shot.
▪ It's a long shot, but well worth trying.
▪ Its brief revival was sparked by Dziekanowski who fed Tarasiewicz and for once a long shot had Shilton in trouble.
▪ She had looked everywhere else and, although it seemed a long shot, she might as well look in there.
▪ The 45-year-old candidate remains the longest of long shots for the Republican nomination.
▪ This is a long shot, but I still want to try it.
▪ With all the interest the article had generated, Fanshawe no longer seemed like such a long shot.
parting shot
▪ As Eve was leaving, she couldn't resist a parting shot at Brian: "I never loved you anyway!"
▪ As it will be the best remembered part of your presentation, your parting shot needs to be powerful.
▪ Gilliland, however, had a parting shot to fire in his paper in Astrophysical Journal.
▪ He left with a parting shot at Supervisor Mike Boyd.
▪ He was strong enough now to attribute the man's parting shot about his drawings to sheer malice.
▪ It's no coincidence that it originated in Moscow - this was the Communist old guard's parting shot.
▪ The ultimate parting shot from an ungrateful aircraft that had enjoyed every care and attention.
take a pot shot at sb/sth
▪ There is a small but vocal minority that likes to take pot shots at the United Nations.
▪ It would be easy, even tempting, to take a pot shot at us.
the whole shooting match
▪ Why not rerun the whole shooting match in every state that was too close to call?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "I have a couple of questions for you." "Okay, shoot."
▪ A tourist was shot dead by muggers in New Orleans last night.
▪ Armed robbers who shot at a security guard are still being hunted by police.
▪ He had been shot in the chest but managed to crawl to safety.
▪ Her second novel shot straight to the top of the bestseller lists.
▪ I was afraid they were going to shoot us.
▪ If you move, I'll shoot.
▪ Make sure you hold the gun steady and shoot straight.
▪ O'Neal turned and shot from behind the 3-point line.
▪ Rico had been shot by a member of a rival gang.
▪ She shot herself with one of her husband's hunting rifles.
▪ Stop or I'll shoot!
▪ The Defence Minister had ordered troops to shoot to kill if attacked.
▪ The opening scenes of the program were shot in northern Oregon.
▪ We used to shoot at empty bottles for practice.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Had I tried to run away I should certainly have been shot in the back.....
▪ He ordered fighters to shoot down Hassans Boeing.
▪ If I had possessed a gun that day I would have shot Frank; that is how bad I felt.
▪ Olajuwon had only one shot in the closing minutes and Barkley got the call on the final shot, which he missed.
▪ Turner, who was being held after his bail was revoked after the Pappas shooting, was released and Wednesday.
▪ We shoot in real locations, with real-life couples.
▪ Witnesses said a man walked up to the couple in the park and talked briefly to them before shooting them.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
green
▪ The curtains looked like spring, but a spring that had happened somewhere else: all green shoots and rainfall and blossom.
▪ Using your thumb and index finger, remove soft, new green shoots to just above the set of leaves.
▪ What Forest displayed at Elland Road were not green shoots of recovery but a field of talent in full bloom.
▪ It was weeks before the bulbs in William and Jenny's bowls began to show green shoots.
▪ It can not just point smugly to the late-flowering green shoots of recovery and wait for economic summer to arrive.
▪ To claim that a packed Oxford Street is an indication of the green shoots of recovery is surely rather premature.
▪ I just skip and run - and look for green shoots.
▪ Let's hope that a wet spring will bring green shoots for Roberts and the economy alike.
new
▪ In spring, new shoots appear, when it can be replanted in the aquarium.
▪ In early March, pull aside the heavy mulch and gather the new young shoots that have come up through the straw.
▪ The ancient traits of the family name still there in the cells of the new-going shoots.
▪ Using your thumb and index finger, remove soft, new green shoots to just above the set of leaves.
▪ Pruning will also delay the flowering while new shoots grow - a very important point in northern wine regions like Champagne.
▪ Every spring, the oldest canes should be removed to allow new shoots to develop.
▪ Each day she found new shoots coming out of the ground.
▪ If these new shoots have roots attached, they can be transplanted in a new spot.
young
▪ Choose healthy young shoots, 2in long, from around the base.
▪ In early March, pull aside the heavy mulch and gather the new young shoots that have come up through the straw.
▪ Start budding rootstocks towards the end of the month, taking buds from firm young shoots.
▪ Some varieties, such as Choy Sum, are grown for the young flower shoots.
▪ September Take cuttings from strong young shoots and root outdoors as for soft fruit.
■ NOUN
fashion
▪ Angela pin ups I've noticed that you use a lot of badges in your fashion shoots.
photo
▪ During the photo shoot, a slow stream of curious tourists and bonafide fans wander up for autographs.
▪ I do the photo shoots for the covers.
▪ The Annie Leibovitz photo shoot went great.
▪ I knew how to juggle photo shoots, prepare catalogs, everything.
▪ The rest of the day is a blur of photo shoots, speeches, interviews and endless briefings with his managers.
video
▪ Here ends your first video shoot.
▪ Why not turn your next video shoot into a day out with family or friends?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a 10 to 1 shot/50 to 1 shot etc
a gangland killing/murder/shooting etc
a good/bad etc shot
▪ But Nogai's a good shot.
▪ Ed Kelley was a good shot.
▪ He made a good shot from there and holed a three-foot putt for a quadruple-bogey eight.
▪ If I hit a bad shot, I try to minimize its effect.
▪ Klingler made it clear at the end of 1996 that he wanted a better shot at moving up the depth chart.
▪ That much was the least expected of a hunter who had made a bad shot.
▪ They have a better shot at claiming the governorship.
▪ Tom played a bad shot out of the bunker, and he does no more than charge straight at this press guy.
a shot across the bows/a warning shot (across the bows)
a shot in the arm
▪ The new factory will give the local economy a real shot in the arm.
▪ Coming back will be a shot in the arm.
▪ In 1922 it received a shot in the arm through a large subsidy from the Central Committee.
▪ It now had the effect of a shot in the arm.
▪ It was like a shot in the arm for us, and our tiredness fell away.
▪ On the Conservative side, the decision of Callaghan not to hold an election came as a shot in the arm.
a shot in the dark
▪ Let's see if she's at Fiona's house. It's a shot in the dark, but we've got to start looking somewhere.
▪ My answer to the last question was a complete shot in the dark.
▪ That was a shot in the dark, but judging from the expression on his face it struck home.
be a long shot
▪ It does no harm to write to the nearest local residents and businesses, but generally this is a long shot.
▪ It was a long shot, but he might have been calling from his usual hotel in Lagos.
▪ It was a long shot, of course, but if she looked carefully she might find something.
▪ It was a long shot, very long.
▪ This is a long shot, but I still want to try it.
▪ We are long shots and we are approaching it that way.
▪ Well, actually, he wanted two things, but he knew the second was a long shot.
be shot through with sth
▪ All the stories were shot through with Hurley's dry, gentle humor.
▪ fine silk shot through with gold threads
▪ And his parents' letters were shot through with such worry.
▪ Many of the women's purity associations were shot through with similar class divisions.
▪ Statement is shot through with feeling in the long, passionately detailed account of the mutiny.
▪ This is a genuine kind of knowledge, but it is shot through with subjectivity.
▪ Unfortunately the timber industry is shot through with economic inefficiency.
▪ Violence is endemic and Thomson fashions a stylish off-beat thriller which occasionally meanders but is shot through with genuine menace.
▪ Yet that concept of secular potential was shot through with particular assumptions.
be/get/want shot of sb/sth
▪ Helen couldn't wait to get shot of me.
▪ If you want to get shot of it through DataEase, it depends on what version you're using.
big shot
▪ a meeting of insurance-industry big shots
▪ Among Western Conference big shots, only San Antonio seems trouble-free right now.
▪ And they used to race some of the big shots in New Bedford.
▪ He will be a big shot one day, she thinks.
▪ I gave my opinion but, of course, it was a big shot so early in the game.
▪ Malone, however, choked when it came to making his two biggest shots of the game.
▪ This is a matter between the big shots.
▪ You see, all the artists wanted to be big shots.
crack shot
▪ A crack shot and a notorious gambler.
▪ And of course the doctor is a crack shot...
▪ Dirk, nearly sixteen, is a crack shot.
▪ The book centres on young blonde Donna, a crack shot with a.45 Magnum.
drive-by shooting/killing
▪ A family of illegal aliens is peppered with shotgun pellets in a drive-by shooting.
▪ A second drive-by shooting March 19 was linked to another gang.
▪ All we get is this stereotyping of violence that I believe leads to drive-by shootings.
▪ As far as we know, nobody ever pulled a drive-by shooting from a golf cart.
▪ G., was killed March 9 in a Los Angeles drive-by shooting.
▪ One person died in a drive-by shooting and several were injured.
▪ The last attack was a drive-by shooting about 3 a. m. June 1.
▪ Your son was killed in a drive-by shooting.
give sth a try/shot/whirl
▪ Are you having trouble fixing the printer? Let me give it a shot.
▪ But on this case, I can not give it a try - that is the point.
▪ He says he thought he'd give it a try, but he got stuck.
▪ Joe gives her the shot twice a week.
▪ Magnus grew fat on brown wholemeal scraps and Gina gave up trying to keep him away.
▪ She had given up trying to read to him, play with him, teach him anything: he could not learn.
▪ Vladimir finally gave up trying to teach me and returned to his sketching.
▪ We wanted into the book badly, and gave it a shot one afternoon.
give sth your best shot
▪ I'm not promising I'll succeed, but I'll give it my best shot.
▪ Hopefully he can recover and regain his test place and give it his best shot.
▪ I'd have given it my best shot, and that was all anyone could demand from me.
▪ I just have a feeling that we have given it our best shot.
▪ The band gave it their best shot, until the arrival of the blue meanies put an end to the proceedings.
▪ You were never entirely safe from prying fingers in Chinatown, but I had to give it my best shot.
hanging/shooting etc is too good for sb
like a shot
▪ She slammed the phone down and was out of the room like a shot.
▪ He asked Jeter if he'd like a shot at it.
▪ I'd tell you like a shot if we ever got into a real jam.
▪ It is not a direct stimulant, like a shot of adrenaline.
▪ She'd be off to Legoland like a shot, to see that caretaker, if Henry said anything.
▪ Sometimes they fall over one another, like shots from a rapid-fire camera.
▪ The great majority, once they breach the system and hear the telltale whine, are out of there like a shot.
▪ Travis had left the door open - she seized her chance, and was through it like a shot.
long shot
▪ City officials and securities experts think the activists are betting on a long shot.
▪ He had not told Rory everything, not by a long shot.
▪ It's a long shot, but well worth trying.
▪ Its brief revival was sparked by Dziekanowski who fed Tarasiewicz and for once a long shot had Shilton in trouble.
▪ She had looked everywhere else and, although it seemed a long shot, she might as well look in there.
▪ The 45-year-old candidate remains the longest of long shots for the Republican nomination.
▪ This is a long shot, but I still want to try it.
▪ With all the interest the article had generated, Fanshawe no longer seemed like such a long shot.
parting shot
▪ As Eve was leaving, she couldn't resist a parting shot at Brian: "I never loved you anyway!"
▪ As it will be the best remembered part of your presentation, your parting shot needs to be powerful.
▪ Gilliland, however, had a parting shot to fire in his paper in Astrophysical Journal.
▪ He left with a parting shot at Supervisor Mike Boyd.
▪ He was strong enough now to attribute the man's parting shot about his drawings to sheer malice.
▪ It's no coincidence that it originated in Moscow - this was the Communist old guard's parting shot.
▪ The ultimate parting shot from an ungrateful aircraft that had enjoyed every care and attention.
put forth leaves/shoots/roots etc
▪ Suddenly as they exchanged memories each saw the other putting forth leaves.
take a pot shot at sb/sth
▪ There is a small but vocal minority that likes to take pot shots at the United Nations.
▪ It would be easy, even tempting, to take a pot shot at us.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Some of the guys are going on a duck shoot this weekend.
▪ Stevens had just finished a photo shoot for a clothing company.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Madeiran willow, with its fine supple shoots, is never allowed to grow tall.
▪ Players from almost every Premier League club were involved in a shoot that took four days and cost £400,000.
▪ Propagation is done by either dividing the rootstock with shoots or by planting seeds in a container of damp sand or loam.
▪ Sever each side shoot by pulling away, or cutting if necessary, so that a heel is left attached.
▪ The bird is served whole on the grapevine shoot and is eaten Tom Jones style.
▪ We were led on camel-back to the shoot.
III.interjectionPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a 10 to 1 shot/50 to 1 shot etc
a gangland killing/murder/shooting etc
a good/bad etc shot
▪ But Nogai's a good shot.
▪ Ed Kelley was a good shot.
▪ He made a good shot from there and holed a three-foot putt for a quadruple-bogey eight.
▪ If I hit a bad shot, I try to minimize its effect.
▪ Klingler made it clear at the end of 1996 that he wanted a better shot at moving up the depth chart.
▪ That much was the least expected of a hunter who had made a bad shot.
▪ They have a better shot at claiming the governorship.
▪ Tom played a bad shot out of the bunker, and he does no more than charge straight at this press guy.
a shot across the bows/a warning shot (across the bows)
a shot in the arm
▪ The new factory will give the local economy a real shot in the arm.
▪ Coming back will be a shot in the arm.
▪ In 1922 it received a shot in the arm through a large subsidy from the Central Committee.
▪ It now had the effect of a shot in the arm.
▪ It was like a shot in the arm for us, and our tiredness fell away.
▪ On the Conservative side, the decision of Callaghan not to hold an election came as a shot in the arm.
a shot in the dark
▪ Let's see if she's at Fiona's house. It's a shot in the dark, but we've got to start looking somewhere.
▪ My answer to the last question was a complete shot in the dark.
▪ That was a shot in the dark, but judging from the expression on his face it struck home.
be a long shot
▪ It does no harm to write to the nearest local residents and businesses, but generally this is a long shot.
▪ It was a long shot, but he might have been calling from his usual hotel in Lagos.
▪ It was a long shot, of course, but if she looked carefully she might find something.
▪ It was a long shot, very long.
▪ This is a long shot, but I still want to try it.
▪ We are long shots and we are approaching it that way.
▪ Well, actually, he wanted two things, but he knew the second was a long shot.
be shooting/firing blanks
be shot through with sth
▪ All the stories were shot through with Hurley's dry, gentle humor.
▪ fine silk shot through with gold threads
▪ And his parents' letters were shot through with such worry.
▪ Many of the women's purity associations were shot through with similar class divisions.
▪ Statement is shot through with feeling in the long, passionately detailed account of the mutiny.
▪ This is a genuine kind of knowledge, but it is shot through with subjectivity.
▪ Unfortunately the timber industry is shot through with economic inefficiency.
▪ Violence is endemic and Thomson fashions a stylish off-beat thriller which occasionally meanders but is shot through with genuine menace.
▪ Yet that concept of secular potential was shot through with particular assumptions.
be/get/want shot of sb/sth
▪ Helen couldn't wait to get shot of me.
▪ If you want to get shot of it through DataEase, it depends on what version you're using.
big shot
▪ a meeting of insurance-industry big shots
▪ Among Western Conference big shots, only San Antonio seems trouble-free right now.
▪ And they used to race some of the big shots in New Bedford.
▪ He will be a big shot one day, she thinks.
▪ I gave my opinion but, of course, it was a big shot so early in the game.
▪ Malone, however, choked when it came to making his two biggest shots of the game.
▪ This is a matter between the big shots.
▪ You see, all the artists wanted to be big shots.
blame/shoot the messenger
▪ Criticising Alan for saying how well scum are playing is a bit like shooting the messenger who brings bad news.
crack shot
▪ A crack shot and a notorious gambler.
▪ And of course the doctor is a crack shot...
▪ Dirk, nearly sixteen, is a crack shot.
▪ The book centres on young blonde Donna, a crack shot with a.45 Magnum.
drive-by shooting/killing
▪ A family of illegal aliens is peppered with shotgun pellets in a drive-by shooting.
▪ A second drive-by shooting March 19 was linked to another gang.
▪ All we get is this stereotyping of violence that I believe leads to drive-by shootings.
▪ As far as we know, nobody ever pulled a drive-by shooting from a golf cart.
▪ G., was killed March 9 in a Los Angeles drive-by shooting.
▪ One person died in a drive-by shooting and several were injured.
▪ The last attack was a drive-by shooting about 3 a. m. June 1.
▪ Your son was killed in a drive-by shooting.
give sth a try/shot/whirl
▪ Are you having trouble fixing the printer? Let me give it a shot.
▪ But on this case, I can not give it a try - that is the point.
▪ He says he thought he'd give it a try, but he got stuck.
▪ Joe gives her the shot twice a week.
▪ Magnus grew fat on brown wholemeal scraps and Gina gave up trying to keep him away.
▪ She had given up trying to read to him, play with him, teach him anything: he could not learn.
▪ Vladimir finally gave up trying to teach me and returned to his sketching.
▪ We wanted into the book badly, and gave it a shot one afternoon.
give sth your best shot
▪ I'm not promising I'll succeed, but I'll give it my best shot.
▪ Hopefully he can recover and regain his test place and give it his best shot.
▪ I'd have given it my best shot, and that was all anyone could demand from me.
▪ I just have a feeling that we have given it our best shot.
▪ The band gave it their best shot, until the arrival of the blue meanies put an end to the proceedings.
▪ You were never entirely safe from prying fingers in Chinatown, but I had to give it my best shot.
hanging/shooting etc is too good for sb
like a shot
▪ She slammed the phone down and was out of the room like a shot.
▪ He asked Jeter if he'd like a shot at it.
▪ I'd tell you like a shot if we ever got into a real jam.
▪ It is not a direct stimulant, like a shot of adrenaline.
▪ She'd be off to Legoland like a shot, to see that caretaker, if Henry said anything.
▪ Sometimes they fall over one another, like shots from a rapid-fire camera.
▪ The great majority, once they breach the system and hear the telltale whine, are out of there like a shot.
▪ Travis had left the door open - she seized her chance, and was through it like a shot.
long shot
▪ City officials and securities experts think the activists are betting on a long shot.
▪ He had not told Rory everything, not by a long shot.
▪ It's a long shot, but well worth trying.
▪ Its brief revival was sparked by Dziekanowski who fed Tarasiewicz and for once a long shot had Shilton in trouble.
▪ She had looked everywhere else and, although it seemed a long shot, she might as well look in there.
▪ The 45-year-old candidate remains the longest of long shots for the Republican nomination.
▪ This is a long shot, but I still want to try it.
▪ With all the interest the article had generated, Fanshawe no longer seemed like such a long shot.
parting shot
▪ As Eve was leaving, she couldn't resist a parting shot at Brian: "I never loved you anyway!"
▪ As it will be the best remembered part of your presentation, your parting shot needs to be powerful.
▪ Gilliland, however, had a parting shot to fire in his paper in Astrophysical Journal.
▪ He left with a parting shot at Supervisor Mike Boyd.
▪ He was strong enough now to attribute the man's parting shot about his drawings to sheer malice.
▪ It's no coincidence that it originated in Moscow - this was the Communist old guard's parting shot.
▪ The ultimate parting shot from an ungrateful aircraft that had enjoyed every care and attention.
put forth leaves/shoots/roots etc
▪ Suddenly as they exchanged memories each saw the other putting forth leaves.
take a pot shot at sb/sth
▪ There is a small but vocal minority that likes to take pot shots at the United Nations.
▪ It would be easy, even tempting, to take a pot shot at us.
the whole shooting match
▪ Why not rerun the whole shooting match in every state that was too close to call?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Oh, shoot! I forgot to go to the bank.