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Lucrezia Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

throw up the wall of fire

Please, rephrase it for me, or explain this sentence: Captain went to rally his men into throwing up the wall of fire (they had just been hit by a shell).

Does it mean he wanted them to "make" a defensive wall of fire? Or something completely different?

Thanks!

Lucrezia
  

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" This is the type of fire that the sentence is referring to. A wall of fire would be a strong and continuous rain of gunfire.

— BarbaraPA

  • " This is the type of fire that the sentence is referring to.
  • A wall of fire would be a strong and continuous rain of gunfire.
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When someone shoots a gun, that's referred to as firing the weapon, and the result is "fire."

We experienced small arms fire means "they shot hand-held guns at us."

This is the type of fire that the sentence is referring to. A wall of fire would be a strong and continuous rain of gunfire.
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Thanks, GG!

That's the fire I had in mind, the gun fire. I just wasn't sure whether I'd got right "throwing up".

Thanks again!

Lucrezia
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