line shooting
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- (World War II, RAF, slang) Exaggerated or boastful stories; showing off.
- 1978, Hugh Verity, We landed by moonlight, Manchester: Crécy Publishing, →ISBN, page 131:
- Authentic RAF line shooting of that time was a form of jocular boasting which nobody was expected to believe[.]
- present participle and gerund of shoot a line