shoot holes

verb

Find faults.

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Meanings

verbshoot holes (third-person singular simple present shoots holes, present participle shooting holes, simple past and past participle shot holes)

present singular third person shoots holes · participle present shooting holes · participle past shot holes · past shot holes

  1. idiomaticFind faults.

    Anytime you want to shoot holes in our ideas, don't hesitate to do so.

    1952, Hope Angel, Illinois Education - Volume 41, Illinois Education Association, page 124
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    One by one, we can shoot holes through possible standards by which the Commission on Qualifications could evaluate nominees for the trial courts.

    1960, California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Constitutional Amendments, Digest of Testimony, The Committee, page 8

    Many of the works in this exhibition also shoot holes in our conventional assumptions about family portraiture.

    2006, Janine Antoni, Shoot the Family, Independent Curators International, →ISBN

Translations

Dutch gaten schieten in, gat schieten in
  • gaten schieten inTranslations
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Chicago

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