squeeze off

1. Fire a gun, as in He squeezed off one shot after another but didn't bring down a single crow. The idiom alludes to squeezing the trigger. [Mid-1900s]

Example Sentences

In that time, police heard him squeeze off 45 rounds.

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The sanctions were announced as Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo traveled to London to shore up support from Britain, one of America’s closest allies, for the drive to squeeze off funding for Hamas, which both countries consider a terrorist organization.

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The sanctions were announced as Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo travelled to London to shore up support from Britain, one of America’s closest allies, for the drive to squeeze off funding for Hamas, which both countries consider a terrorist organization.

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The government is borrowing so much money — and spending it so extravagantly — that demand is sustaining even as the Fed tries to squeeze off the private sector.

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My hands were shaking so badly, I was afraid I might squeeze off another shot by mistake.

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