Idiom
shoot holes
Meaning
Find faults.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“It is easy to shoot holes in his weak argument.”
“The lawyer spent all afternoon trying to shoot holes in the witness's story during the trial.”
“Although the researcher presented a bold new theory, the skeptical committee quickly managed to shoot holes in her methodology.”
Examples
simple
“It is easy to shoot holes in his weak argument.”
contextual
“The lawyer spent all afternoon trying to shoot holes in the witness's story during the trial.”
complex
“Although the researcher presented a bold new theory, the skeptical committee quickly managed to shoot holes in her methodology.”
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