/ · 1894 Brewer’s · H · Hang Fire (To)
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To fail in an expected result. The allusion is to a gun or pistol which fails to go off.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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