tire fire

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English

Alternative forms

tire-fire

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Noun

tire fire (plural tire fires)

(chiefly US, idiomatic, usually sports) A disaster; a chaotic person, thing, or situation.
- 2014 December 19, “NHL: Oilers lose AHL affiliate Oklahoma City Barons due to attendance issues”, in Sports Illustrated, retrieved 10 February 2017:
  As the tire fire that is the Edmonton Oilers rages on, their AHL affiliate is going through a worse ordeal.
- 2016 May 18, Kraemer_17, "Listless Blue Jays Embarrassed for 2nd Night," BluebirdBanter.com (retrieved 10 Feb 2017):
  The Reds pitching staff is a tire fire.
- 2016 November 18, David White, “Pro Football: Who We Think Will Win in Week 11”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 February 2017:
  The Browns . . . threw three quarterbacks into the tire fire against Baltimore last week.
- 2017 January 26, Jay Willis, “Donald Trump Is Making Shameless Equivocation the Dominant Form of Political Discourse”, in GQ, retrieved 10 February 2017:
  During his hourlong tire fire of an interview . . . the sheer volume of breathtaking lies flippantly uttered by President Trump made it legitimately difficult to decide which one of them posed the most direct threat to American democracy.

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