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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