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Shoot someone a line

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• Shoot someone down

  shoot bricks

• Shoot straight

  Also, shoot square. Deal fairly and honestly, as in You can’t trust most car salesmen, but Jim always shoots straight, or We always shoot square with our customers. These colloquial terms use straight and square in the sense of “straightforward and honest,” and shoot in the sense of “deal with.”

• Shoot-the-chutes

  noun 1. chute the chute. chute the chute or chute the chutes, shoot the chutes verb (used without object) 1. to ride or slide on, or as if on, a chute-the-chute.

• Shoot the lights out

  shoot the breeze

• Shoot through

  verb 1. (intransitive, adverb) (informal, mainly Austral) to leave; depart

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