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Phrase(s): fire (something) at someone or something [and] fire (something) away at someone or something
to shoot at someone or something with a weapon. • Someone fired a gun at my car! • The cowboy fired at the rattlesnake. • The hunters fired away at the ducks. • On television, somebody is always firing away at somebody else.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs