<span class="searchmatch">shoot</span> <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span> (third-person singular simple present <span class="searchmatch">shoots</span> <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span>, present participle <span class="searchmatch">shooting</span> <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span>, simple past and past participle shot <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span>)...
From <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span> + <span class="searchmatch">shooter</span>, circa 1905. Whence troubleshoot (verb), <span class="searchmatch">shoot</span> <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span> (verb), and troubleshooting (noun) as back-formations. (General American)...
up <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span> <span class="searchmatch">shoot</span> <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span> take the <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span> teething <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span>, teething <span class="searchmatch">troubles</span> The <span class="searchmatch">Troubles</span> time <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span> <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span> and strife <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span> at mill <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span> at...
shit <span class="searchmatch">shoot</span> through <span class="searchmatch">shoot</span> through like a Bondi tram <span class="searchmatch">shoot</span> <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span> <span class="searchmatch">shoot</span> up shooty shot-on-video shot out shot through with shot with a shovel so <span class="searchmatch">shoot</span> me...
Back-formation from troubleshooter; by surface analysis, <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span> + <span class="searchmatch">shoot</span>. enPR: trŭbʹəl-shūt', IPA(key): /ˈtɹʌbl̩ˌʃuːt/ troubleshoot (third-person singular...
See also: gutshoot and gut-<span class="searchmatch">shoot</span> gut <span class="searchmatch">shoot</span> (third-person singular simple present gut <span class="searchmatch">shoots</span>, present participle gut <span class="searchmatch">shooting</span>, simple past and past participle...
<span class="searchmatch">shoot</span> the boots (third-person singular simple present <span class="searchmatch">shoots</span> the boots, present participle <span class="searchmatch">shooting</span> the boots, simple past and past participle shot the...
history to <span class="searchmatch">shoot</span> themselves in the foot. 2022 February 7, Peter Stone, “Trump's incendiary Texas speech may have deepened his legal <span class="searchmatch">troubles</span>, experts say”...
dug oneself in a hole) (informal, idiomatic) To put oneself in even more <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span>. dig a hole for oneself dig one's own grave <span class="searchmatch">shoot</span> oneself in the foot...
the woods (idiomatic) Out of peril; likely to recover or prevail over <span class="searchmatch">trouble</span>; finished with the worst or most threatening part of a problem or illness...