blaze away (at someone or something)

blaze away (at someone or something)
blaze away (at someone or something)
[for gunfire] to fire continually at someone or something. •

The guns blazed away at the oncoming ducks.

The cowboy blazed away at his opponent in the gunfight.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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