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Firing line   /fˈaɪrɪŋ laɪn/   Listen
Firing line

noun
1.
The line from which soldiers deliver fire.
2.
The most advanced and responsible group in an activity.





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"Firing line" Quotes from Famous Books



... the seventy Americans at Villingen wished themselves anywhere outside the prison camp, and most of all back on the firing line, helping to win. ...
— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood
... army had not served an apprenticeship between the shafts of the rickshaw, they must at least have passed through some training equally severe. On the expedition to Pekin they carried with them a number of light calibre guns, which they pulled into action, without horses, right into the firing line. In every detail of their camp equipment, food-supply, and field hospital corps, there was a neatness of packing and arrangement which apparently resulted in their carrying all their requirements in about a third less space than any of the others. The simple fare of ...
— Impressions of a War Correspondent • George Lynch
... "comparatively few of our men were injured." Captain Capron at this time received his mortal wound and the firing became so terrific that the last remaining troop of the reserve was absorbed by the firing line, and the whole regiment ordered to advance very slowly. The Spanish line yielded and the advance soon showed that in falling back the enemy had taken a new position, about three hundred yards in front of the advancing regiment. ...
— The Colored Regulars in the United States Army • T. G. Steward
... people behind the firing line should give one confidence. I had heard that the Italians were a nervous people. It does not apply to this part of Italy. As I approached the danger spot I saw rows of large, fat gentlemen with long thin black cigars leaning ...
— A Visit to Three Fronts • Arthur Conan Doyle
... at any rate, we're a very comfortable distance behind the firing line. This has been the advanced base for the Kut show. By river we are 130 miles above Basra and about the same below Kut. The action there on the 27th and 28th was a great success, but the pursuit was unfortunately hung up and prevented our reaping quite the ...
— Letters from Mesopotamia • Robert Palmer


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