shoot holes

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shoot holes (third-person singular simple present shoots holes, present participle shooting holes, simple past and past participle shot holes)

  1. (idiomatic) Find faults.
    • 1952, Hope Angel, Illinois Education - Volume 41, Illinois Education Association, page 124:
      Anytime you want to shoot holes in our ideas, don't hesitate to do so.
    • 1960, California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Constitutional Amendments, Digest of Testimony, The Committee, page 8:
      One by one, we can shoot holes through possible standards by which the Commission on Qualifications could evaluate nominees for the trial courts.
    • 2006, Janine Antoni, Shoot the Family, Independent Curators International, →ISBN:
      Many of the works in this exhibition also shoot holes in our conventional assumptions about family portraiture.

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