under fire
/ˈʌndɚ faɪɚ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.16 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
Example Sentences
- "courage under fire"
- "coolness under fire"
- "Enlisted personnel are thoroughly trained and stay calm under fire. Turian units don't break. Even if their entire line collapses, they fall back in order, setting ambushes as they go."
- "grace under fire"
- "The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife—shrill, vehement, and fluent. […] He had learned, by long experience, the best tactique under fire: he became actually taciturn; or, if he spoke, his speech was laconic and enigmatical; sometimes throwing out a proverb, and sometimes a text; and sometimes when provoked past endurance, spouting mildly a little bit of meek and venomous irony."
- "Meanwhile, the government's own Human Services department is under fire from the Ombudsman for its failure to protect children in its care."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈʌndɚ faɪɚ/
- British English: /ˈʌndə faɪə/