英和和英

語源

pot +‎ shot

名詞

potshot (複数形 potshots)

1. A shot taken at an easy or random target.
2. Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot.
   • 2018 July 26, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “A documentary muckraker takes on the tech sector of health in The Bleeding Edge”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     He takes his share of potshots (mostly at the Da Vinci surgical robot), but the conscience of the film is in the stories of Essure, a procedure marketed to women as a hassle-free alternative to tubal ligation

動詞

potshot (三人称単数 現在形 potshots, 現在分詞 potshotting, 過去形および過去分詞形 potshotted)

1. To fire potshots.

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語源

1858, shot taken for the (cooking) pot, namely for food; see pothunter.^[1] Sense “opportunistic criticism” from 1926.^[1]

名詞

pot shot (複数形 pot shots)

1. A haphazard shot with a firearm, taken with careless aim, often fired at a random target.
2. A shot taken from a hidden stakeout.
3. By analogy, insulting or hurtful words carelessly or randomly said; opportunistic attack, especially criticism.
   • 2007, The Observer, [1]

     Why should Jonathan, Ruth and all the others have to stay out there like sitting ducks as policemen and their smug reporter friends took pot shots at them?

関連する語

• pothunter

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