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Tyson's former wife, actress Robin Givens, said point-blank in the same joint interview, "Mike is a manic-depressive."
By extension, a point-blank question or accusation is one that is direct and straightforward —right to the mark.
Although hanging fire is defined as being the opposite of point-blank , the two are unrelated in the field of firearms: a hang-fire is a `delay in the ignition of the powder charge in a firearm'--not a benign delay but a serious, potentially deadly situation.
point-blank In ballistics, a weapon fired point-blank is one whose sights are aimed directly at a target so that the projectile speeds to its destination in a flat trajectory.
The opposite of point-blank is hanging fire , `undecided, up in the air.