Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʌndɚ faɪɚ/Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#UNDERFIRE
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʌndə faɪə/Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#UNDERFIRE

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Prepositional phrase

under fireCategory:English lemmas#UNDERFIRECategory:English prepositional phrases#UNDERFIRECategory:English multiword terms#UNDERFIRECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#UNDERFIRECategory:Pages with entries#UNDER%20FIRECategory:Pages with 1 entry#UNDER%20FIRE

1. Subjected to enemy attack with firearms.

   courage under fireCategory:English terms with collocations#UNDERFIRE

   coolness under fireCategory:English terms with collocations#UNDERFIRE

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: Military Doctrine Codex entry:

     Enlisted personnel are thoroughly trained and stay calm under fire. Turian units don't break. Even if their entire line collapses, they fall back in order, setting ambushes as they go.

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2. (figurative) Criticized or held responsible for something.

   grace under fireCategory:English terms with collocations#UNDERFIRE

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife—shrill, vehement, and fluent. […] He had learned, by long experience, the best tactique under fire: he became actually taciturn; or, if he spoke, his speech was laconic and enigmatical; sometimes throwing out a proverb, and sometimes a text; and sometimes when provoked past endurance, spouting mildly a little bit of meek and venomous irony.

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   • 2009, Michael O'Connor, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 2:

     Meanwhile, the government's own Human Services department is under fire from the Ombudsman for its failure to protect children in its care.

   • 2020 June 3, Andrew Mourant, “A safer railway in a greener habitat”, in Rail, page 58:

     Over the past two years, particularly in 2018, Network Rail has come under fire about its approaches to trackside tree-felling across its 52,000-hectare estate. Conservationists accused it of wanton destruction.

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