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Kill
( James Bond movie Roger Moore )
A big
shot
A bigger
bang
for your buck
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A tiger in your
tank
Air
shot
All
guns
blazing
America's Favorite
Cowboy
( Nickname of actor Gene Autry )
Appetite For Destruction (
Guns
N' Roses album )
Assault with a deadly
weapon
At the end of a gun
Ball of
fire
Bang
goes nothing
Bang
on
Bang
on about
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Bang
out of order
Bang
to rights
Bang
your head against a brick wall
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head ( The Beatles song lyric )
Baptism of
fire
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Bernie, the bolt ( A catchphrase from The Golden
Shot
)
Big
Shot
Becky ( Nickname of basketball player Becky Hammon )
Big
Shot
Bob ( Nickname of basketball player Robert Horry )
Big
bang
Big
shot
Bite the
bullet
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Blaze away at
Blow great
guns
Blow your brains out
Booster
shot
Breathe
fire
Bricks and
mortar
( Cockney rhyming slang for daughter )
Bullet
Joe ( Nickname of baseball player Charles Rogan )
C'mon Colman's, light my
fire
( Colman's Mustard advertising slogan )
Cannon
fodder
Catch
fire
Cheap
shot
Chew a gun
Chicago piano
Chicago typewriter
Chinese
fire
drill
Choose your
weapon
Clicks and
mortar
Come On Baby Light My
Fire
( The Doors song )
Come home to a real
fire
( Coal Board advertising slogan )
Cowboy
coffee
Cowboy
marketing
Crazy Gun Barney ( Nickname of Barney Fife ( Don Knotts ) )
Desperate Dan ( a
cowboy
strongman character in the British comic The Dandy )
Dodged a
bullet
Don't
shoot
the messenger
Don't
shoot
the piano player
Don't
shoot
until you can see the whites of their eyes
Double, double toil and trouble,
fire
burn and cauldron bubble
Draw someone's
fire
Dressed to
kill
Drive by shooting
Drugstore
cowboy
Drunk
tank
Faster than a speeding
bullet
( A catchphrase from Superman )
Fight
fire
with
fire
Fire
And Rain ( James Taylor song )
Fire
Sale
Fire
and brimstone
Fire
away
Fire
down below
Fire
engine red
Fire
in the hole
Fire
in your belly
Fire
storm
Fire
the imagination ( inspire with enthusiasm )
Fire
up the Quattro ( A catchphrase from Gene Glenister In Ashes To Ashes )
Flash in the pan
Friendly
fire
Gang
bang
Gangster rap
Get a
bang
out of something
Get on like a house on
fire
Get
shot
of
Give it the gun
Give it your best
shot
Go great
guns
Go in for the
kill
Go postal
Go through
fire
and water for
Go with a
bang
Great Balls Of
Fire
( Jerry Lee Lewis song )
Grunt cruncher ( military
tank
- grunt is a slang term for infantryman )
Gun down
Gunboat diplomacy
Gunfight
At The O K Corral ( Burt Lancaster / Kurt Douglas movie )
Gunpowder
treason and plot ( line from nursery rhyme )
Guns
before butter ( Political slogan )
Hair
trigger
Hang
fire
Happiness Is A Warm Gun ( The Beatles song )
Harp puts out the
fire
( Harp Lager advertising slogan )
Have a
shot
at
Have gun, will travel ( A catchphrase from TV series )
Have many irons in the
fire
He
shot
through like a Bondi tram
Heap coals of
fire
on someone's head
Hire and
fire
Hold a gun to his head
Hot
shot
I
Shot
The Sheriff ( Eric Clapton song )
I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? ( Beatles song lyric )
I'd
kill
for a cup of tea
If I tell you I will have to
shoot
you
If I tell you, I'll have to
kill
you
If looks could
kill
In at the
kill
In the line of
fire
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Jump the gun
Just
shoot
me
Keep your powder dry
Kill
Bill ( Quentin Tarantino movie )
Kill
or be killed
Kill
or cure
Kill
stone dead
Kill
the fatted calf
Kill
the goose that lays the golden egg
Kill
time
Kill
time until time kills you
Kill
two birds with one stone
Kill
with kindness
Laser
Rocket Arm ( Nickname of Peyton Manning )
Leave the gun, take the cannoli ( line from The Godfather )
Liar liar: pants on
fire
Licence To
Kill
( James Bond movie Timothy Dalton )
Licensed to
kill
Light My
Fire
( The Doors song )
Light a
fire
under him
Light a
fire
under some
Like a pig from a gun
Like a
shot
Little Sure
Shot
( Nickname of Annie Oakley )
Lock stock and barrel
Long
shot
Loose
cannon
Machine Gun Kelly ( Nickname of George Kelly )
Magic
bullet
Magnum
opus
Mail
shot
Midnight
Cowboy
( Dustin Hoffman / Jon Voight movie )
More
bang
for your buck
Mother Superior jumped the gun ( Beatles song lyric )
Mr. Big
Shot
( Nickname of Chauncey Billups )
Mr.
Cowboy
( Nickname of Bob Lilly )
Never fired in anger
Not by a long
shot
Not with a
bang
but a whimper ( from a poem by Eliot )
Not with a
bang
but with a whimper
Open
fire
Out of the frying pan into the
fire
Pack heat
Packing heat
Packing lead
Parting
shot
Perfect
shot
Piss like a
fire
engine
Pistol
Pete ( Nickname of Pete Maravich )
Pistol
Pete ( Nickname of Pete Sampras )
Play with
fire
Poacher turned
gamekeeper
Pull the
trigger
Pull your chestnuts out of the
fire
Put a gun to your head
Put a tiger in Your
Tank
( Esso advertising slogan )
Quick on the draw
Rear gunner ( slang term for a homosexual )
Remember remember the fifth of November ( line from nursery rhyme )
Rhinestone
cowboy
Ride
shotgun
Rifle
through
Ring Of
Fire
( Johnny Cash song )
Road
kill
Rootin'est, tootin'est
cowboy
Rubber
bullet
( a
bullet
made of rubber or plastic and used for riot control )
Run toward the sound of gunfire
Russian roulette
Saturday night special
Secret
weapon
See how they run like pigs from a gun ( The Beatles song lyric )
See what we mean (
Canon
advertising slogan )
Set
Fire
to the Rain ( Adele song )
Set the Thames on
fire
Set the world on
fire
Set your hair on
fire
Shoot
'em up
Shoot
a birdie ( score one under par in a golf
shot
)
Shoot
a fairy
Shoot
blanks
Shoot
down in flames ( destroy an argument or theory )
Shoot
first, ask questions later
Shoot
from the hip
Shoot
him down in flames
Shoot
hoops
Shoot
it out
Shoot
me now
Shoot
on sight
Shoot
someone a line
Shoot
straight ( to talk or deal honestly )
Shoot
the breeze
Shoot
the moon ( remove household goods by night to avoid paying rent )
Shoot
the puppy
Shoot
through ( to leave or abscond )
Shoot
to
kill
Shoot
your cuffs
Shoot
your mouth off
Shoot
yourself in the foot
Shooting war
Shootout at the OK Corral
Shot
across the bows
Shot
in the arm
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Shot
in the dark
Shot
to hell
Shot
while trying to escape
Shotgun
wedding
Silver
bullet
( a simple and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem )
Slap
bang
in the middle
Smoking gun
Son of a gun
Stick to your
guns
Stop, or my mom will
shoot
( line from Sylvestor Stallone movie )
Stronger ( What Doesn't
Kill
You ) ( Kelly Clarkson song )
Take a pot
shot
at
That which does not
kill
us makes us stronger ( Friedrich Nietzsche quotation )
The Bronze Goddess of
Fire
( Nickname of LaWanda Page )
The Cajun
Cannon
( Nickname of Bobby Hebert )
The
Cowboy
State ( Nickname of the US state of Wyoming )
The Fast Gun From Texas ( Nickname of Dan Troop ( John Russell ) )
The Fighting
Cowboy
( Nickname of James Tillis )
The Gun That Won The West ( Nickname of the Colt
revolver
)
The
Guns
Of Navarone ( Gregory Peck / David Niven movie )
The Hoosier Hot
Shot
( Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner )
The Man Who
Shot
Liberty Valance ( James Stewart / John Wayne movie )
The Man With The Golden Gun ( James Bond movie Roger Moore )
The Mississippi
Bullet
( Nickname of Monta Ellis )
The Polish
Cannon
( Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski )
The Reading
Rifle
( Nickname of Carl Furillo )
The Ring Of
Fire
( Johnny Cash song )
The Singing
Cowboy
( Nickname of Gene Autry )
The Singing
Cowboy
( Nickname of Roy Rogers )
The Springfield
Rifle
( Nickname of Vic Raschi )
The cereal that's
shot
from guns! ( Quaker Puffed Wheat advertising slogan )
The fat is in the
fire
The heavy
artillery
The money
shot
The
shot
heard around the world
There's a tiger in my
tank
There's no smoke without
fire
They
Shoot
Horses Don't They? ( Jane Fonda movie )
This Wheel's On
Fire
( Bob Dylan song )
Thou shalt not
kill
Throw Another Log On The
Fire
( Outlaws song )
Time to
kill
To
Kill
A Mockingbird ( Gregory Peck movie )
Too many irons in the
fire
Trigger
happy
Turkey
shoot
Two irons in the
fire
Under
fire
Under the gun
Urban
cowboy
We've got you covered
Welcome to the Jungle (
Guns
n Roses song )
Where there's smoke there's
fire
Where's the fire?
Who's finger do you want on the trigger?
With both barrels
You couldn't catch a monkey with a
shotgun
and a sack
You'll get
shot