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to be facing a situation that is unpleasant or dangerous: The President is unlikely to act until he's staring down the barrel of a gun. Various countries are staring down the barrel of recession. The team is looking down the barrel of their seventh straight defeat.
Traduzione di "down the barrel" in italiano. nella canna. lungo la canna. attraverso la canna. sotto la canna. fondo del barile. dentro la canna. giù per la canna. Mostrare più. Like shoving a screwdriver down the barrel. Tipo infilare un cacciavite nella canna. Pour the remainder of the powder down the barrel.
Traduzioni in contesto per "down the barrel of" in inglese-italiano da Reverso Context: Tell me why it's bad to look down the barrel of your gun?
Nota: Followed by a preposition or an adverb: barrel along, barrel down, barrel into : Omar barreled down the driveway. Omar si precipitò nel vialetto di accesso.
3 giu 2022 · It refers to literally staring down the opening of a gun, and thus to have the gun pointed directly at the speaker, usually from close range, an obviously dangerous situation. stare down the barrel of {X} when X is anything other than a gun is a metaphoric use of the parent idiom.
'down the barrel' is a correct and commonly used English phrase. It is often used to refer to something being done "head-on", with no hesitation or avoidance. For example, "I looked down the barrel of the situation and decided I had to take action".
look down the barrel. To raise and point a gun at someone or something. (The "barrel" of a gun is the tube-shaped part from which the projectile is fired.) I don't know that I could look down the barrel and shoot another human being—I just don't think I could do it.
