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draw (or get) a bead on1chiefly North American Take aim at with a gun: I drew a bead on the nape of his neck...- ‘He drew a bead on me and I drew a bead on him and dropped him,’ Capt. Hornbuckle says. ‘He was not going to stop me from going home.’
- Turner got a bead on yet another alien ship and loosed a missile from the left pylon.
- Other times, on other nights that Goodrum himself describes, he'd relive those bleak seconds aboard the USS Missouri when he was in the Navy during the War and a missile drew a bead on his ship.
Synonyms aim at, fix on, focus on, zero in on, sight 1.1Fully understand or make sense of: it’s hard to draw a bead on the stock market these days...- The Snowbirds obliged by flying in numbers sufficient for my autofocus to get a bead on them.
- The purpose of the dance was to prevent snipers from getting a bead on us.
- Plenty of good spots for a rebel sniper or two with AA artillery to get a bead on an air limo cruising along.
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