under fire

under fire englannista suomeksi

1. tulitettu

1. tulituksessa

under fire englanniksi

1. Subjected to enemy attack with firearms.

(collocation)

2. (quote-video game)|location=Redwood City|publisher=Electronic Arts|year=2008|system=PC|scene=Turians: Military Doctrine Codex entry|isbn=9780784546642|oclc=246633669|text=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.

3. Criticized or held responsible for something.

4. (quote-book) 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.

5. 2009, Michael O'Connor, ''Quadrant'', November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 2:

Meanwhile, the government's own Human Services department is under fire from the Ombudsman for its failure to protect children in its care.

6. (quote-journal)