Meaning of Potshot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A shot taken at an easy or random target.
2. Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“to take a potshot at”

“Bannister leaped up, ran lightly across the intervening space, and with his repeater took a potshot at the galloping horseman.”

“He takes his share of potshots (mostly at the Da Vinci surgical robot), but the conscience of the film is in the stories of Essure, a procedure marketed to women as a hassle-free alternative to tubal ligation”

“And until recently, anyone could read his Facebook posts, which included vulgar potshots at Nancy Pelosi and her husband and a pronouncement that supporters of Joseph R. Biden Jr. suffered from a “mental affliction.””

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