CROSS FIRE

cross fire: translation

Synonyms and related words:

alternation, antiaircraft fire, battledore and shuttlecock, commutation, cooperation, counterchange, curtain fire, direct fire, dry fire, exchange, file fire, fire, fire of demolition, firepower, fireworks, firing, flack, flak, give-and-take, ground fire, gunfight, gunfire, gunplay, high-angle fire, horizontal fire, interchange, interdiction fire, intermutation, interplay, lex talionis, machine-gun fire, measure for measure, mortar fire, musketry, mutual admiration, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutuality, percussion fire, permutation, pistol fire, quid pro quo, raking fire, rapid fire, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, retaliation, ricochet fire, rifle fire, shellfire, shoot-out, shooting, something for something, time fire, tit for tat, transposal, transposition, vertical fire, zone fire

найдено в "Dictionary of American idioms"

cross fire: translation

{n.} 1. Firing in a fight or battle from two or more places at once so that the lines of fire cross. * /The soldiers on the bridge were caught in the crossfire coming from both sides of the bridge./ 2. Fast or angry talking back and forth between two or more people; also, a dispute; a quarrel. * /There was a cross fire of excited questions and answers between the parents and the children who had been lost in the woods./ * /The principal and the graduates quarreled about the football team, and the coach was caught in the cross fire and lost his job./

найдено в "Dictionary of American idioms"

cross fire: translation

{n.} 1. Firing in a fight or battle from two or more places at once so that the lines of fire cross. * /The soldiers on the bridge were caught in the crossfire coming from both sides of the bridge./ 2. Fast or angry talking back and forth between two or more people; also, a dispute; a quarrel. * /There was a cross fire of excited questions and answers between the parents and the children who had been lost in the woods./ * /The principal and the graduates quarreled about the football team, and the coach was caught in the cross fire and lost his job./

найдено в "Англо-русском словаре редакции bed"

перекрестный огонь, словесная перепалка, шумный обмен мнениями

найдено в "Англо-русском словаре Лингвистика-98"

(n) перекрестный огонь; словесная перепалка