Meaning of starting gun | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A gun fired to start a race.
2. A signal to start or proceed; something that triggers an event or situation.
   figuratively

Examples

“No one told you when to run⟳ / You missed the starting gun”

““In the fight⟳ for voting rights, this vote⟳ was the starting gun, not the finish⟳ line,” said Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader. “We will not let⟳ it go. We will not let⟳ it die⟳. This voter suppression cannot stand⟳.””

“Innocuous as it sounds, this note⟳ was a starting gun for a resource race⟳ on the planet’s last⟳ vast frontier: the abyssal plains that stretch⟳ between continental shelves deep below the oceans.”

“We have⟳ waited a very long time for the Railways Bill to see⟳ the light⟳ of day. The starting gun was fired as long ago as May 2021, when the Williams-Shapps Plan⟳ for Rail was finally published, after its own⟳ gestation period of nearly three years.”

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