fire your gun

[princesabharwal]

Hello all,

Thanks in advance.

can anyone let me know whether the statment mentioned below is an idiom or not:

1) Fire your gun from someone else's shoulder

and I will really appreciate if anyone can tell me how can we use it?

Regards

Prince

[5jj]

It's not an idiom or saying that I know of.

[Rover_KE]

I don't even know what it's supposed to mean.

Rover

[5jj]

May be it's an idiom.

Rover and I are suggesting that it is not.

[bhaisahab]

I agree, it's not an idiom. I would guess, however, that it means "to get someone else to do one's dirty work". It's similar to "loading bullets for someone else to fire", for which I can find no reference on line, but it is something I heard fairly often when I was young.

[BobK]

Hello all,

Thanks in advance.

can anyone let me know whether the statment mentioned below is an idiom or not:

1) Fire your gun from someone else's shoulder

and I will really appreciate if anyone can tell me how can we use it?

Regards

Prince

It sounds to me like a word-for-word transliteration of an expression that is idiomat.c in another language, probably meaning something like 'get someone else do your dirty work' (which is idiomatic). But as Rover and Jed and Bhai have said, it's not idiomatic English.

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[5jj]

It sounds to me like a word-for-word transliteration of an expression that is idiomatc in another language, probably meaning something like 'get someone else do your dirty work' (which is idiomatic). But as Rover and Jed and Bhai have said, it's not idiomatic English.

I think you have hit into the black, as a German speaking English might say. Native speakers would say 'hit the nail on the head'.