shoot through
Britishverb
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When the agents failed to pry the sofa bed open, Maltzan told them it was stuck, but they could “shoot through the couch” if they thought she was hiding anything.
After he landed, Diaz felt pain shoot through his foot.
From Los Angeles Times
But one structural engineer told me that the greater risk in most facilities is horizontal, not vertical—not that a vehicle would fall through the floor, but that it would shoot through a barrier.
From Slate
Monika Mitchell was the director for one of them, and she did a location shoot through my house.
From Salon
“All we really have over here is the fake news, right? And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news,” Trump said.
From Salon
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