fire away

verb

fired away; firing away; fires away

intransitive verb

: to speak without hesitation

—usually used as an imperative

"We have questions for you." "OK. Fire away."

Examples of fire away in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The two were sitting down for a chit-chat in Milan when Ottenberg started firing away. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026

With center Jonquel Jones (eight points) playing through an ankle injury, the Liberty were more than happy to fire away from the outside. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

By drawing hostile radar and missile fire away from fighters, bombers and unmanned aerial vehicles, the decoy creates safer corridors for allied aircraft during high-risk missions. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 19 July 2026

Nothing Odysseus can do will be able to stop Oppenheimer from stealing fire away from Prometheus several thousand years later. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 15 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1756, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for fire away

• andromache
• bioassay
• cabriolet
• cercariae
• communique
• companionway
• compositae
• decussate
• examinee
• fabaceae
• glyphosate
• gramineae