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Example sentences for: potshot

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Take the words shot, shoot , and shooting . Sure as shooting, some hotshot big shot is bound to shoot the breeze and shoot this big mouth off about taking a cheap shot potshot at some troubleshooting competitor.
No self-respecting cultural critic could resist a potshot at Time and Newsweek for putting The Blair Witch Project on their covers--even though it is the best movie showing at the moment.
It is not always easy to ascertain whether the underlying metaphor in such expressions is the bow and arrow or the gun and cannon (see Peter A. Douglas's “The Bows' Stratagem,” VERBATIM VI,3), but we can be fairly certain that the wad in shooting one's wad refers to the wad that held the powder and shot in position to be fired from early guns and that the pot in potshot signifies the dinner pot to be filled with an animal that was shot close up without any regard for rules.
I just wanted to take a cheap potshot by pointing out how old Warren Beatty is, and how old Liddy Dole is.