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pot shot

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pot shot
1. a chance shot taken casually, hastily, or without careful aim
2. a shot fired to kill game in disregard of the rules of sport
3. a shot fired at quarry within easy range, often from an ambush


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Tony Curtis, in London for the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards, took a pot shot at the Academy Awards.
I was afraid one of them would take a pot shot and hit the plane, so I didn't risk taxiing the plane out on the runway.
Sondheim's parable is set in a fanciful limbo, where a pot shot at the president can score you a stuffed animal, but this carnival is really not remote from our daily lives.
 
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