Meaning of firing line | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The line from which soldiers fire their weapons at a target; especially the front line of troops in a battle.
2. A row of shooters.
3. Line of fire, a situation in which someone or something is targeted.
   figuratively
4. The vanguard of an activity.
   idiomatic

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Examples

“Directly in their firing line was Sir Brian Robertson, the retired Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Land Forces in the Second World War, who had been appointed chairman of the British Transport Commission (BTC) in 1953.”

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