fire off

Idioms  

1. Say or write and send away rapidly, as in He fired off three more questions, or She fired off a letter of complaint to the president. This expression originally (from about 1700) was, and still is, used in the sense of “discharge a weapon or ammunition,” as in The police were instructed to fire off canisters of tear gas. The figurative use dates from the late 1800s.

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Example Sentences

She may not be fun, but she does fire off sparks.

From The Wall Street Journal

The BOT can fire off more rate cuts, but it is running out of ammunition.

From The Wall Street Journal

The other player to have achieved the same feat in The Hundred was Steve Eskinazi for Welsh Fire off Southern Brave's Craig Overton in 2023.

From BBC

The hosts might have expected to be chasing more on a good surface at Headingley, especially when Jonny Bairstow and Steve Smith got the Fire off to a rapid start with a 62-run stand.

From BBC

We were getting in our cars when we heard that there was another fire, off the 101 Freeway — so we didn’t want to risk driving that way.

From Los Angeles Times