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单词 to fire into the brown
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to fire into the brown (of them)
4. the brown: lit. the brown-coloured mass of a flock of game-birds; in to fire into the brown (of them): to fire into the midst of a covey instead of singling out a bird; also transferred, to fire, or launch a missile, indiscriminately into a mass.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shoot [verb (intransitive)] > manner or type of
grousec1798
to set up1824
to shoot for the stick1834
to go to rode1838
to fire into the brown (of them)1845
set1859
hold ahead1881
hold on1881
rough-shoot1937
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > discharge firearms [verb (intransitive)] > types of firing
plunge1761
steal1794
snipe1832
to fire into the brown (of them)1845
pot1854
pot-shoot1867
group1911
pot-shot1913
1845 J. Mayer Sportsman's Direct. (ed. 7) ii. 21 Always aim at one particular bird, not firing at random at the whole covey, or ‘into the brown of them’.
1871 Punch 16 Dec. 256/2 Sportsmen, whose sport must mainly consist in ‘firing into the brown’.
1885 Punch 31 Jan. 53 ‘Pop! Bang! Whose bird?’ That's the French notion of a tag, as the husband looses off ‘into the brown’ of his wife's adorers.
1888 R. Kipling Phantom 'Rickshaw (1889) 87 We three Martinis firing into the brown of the enemy.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. xxiii. 545 I fired two..stools..into the brown of it, and the meeting broke up.
1899 Daily News 4 May 8/2 The sportsman..not firing into the brown, but taking careful aim at some particular bird.
1908 T. N. Walker Through Mutiny v. 90 Our officer..treated the General and his followers to some volleys fired right into the brown of them.
1955 ‘C. S. Forester’ Good Shepherd 23 Three square miles of sea, an immense target for any torpedo fired ‘into the brown’.
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