Idiom
stop a bullet
Meaning
To be shot; to receive a bullet in one's body.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He was lucky he did not have to stop a bullet.”
“The soldier knew that if he stepped out from behind the wall, he might stop a bullet.”
“In the chaos of the revolution, the young guard realized that to protect his leader, he might ultimately have to stop a bullet.”
Examples
simple
“He was lucky he did not have to stop a bullet.”
contextual
“The soldier knew that if he stepped out from behind the wall, he might stop a bullet.”
complex
“In the chaos of the revolution, the young guard realized that to protect his leader, he might ultimately have to stop a bullet.”
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