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shooting blanks
adjective as in inefficient
adjective as in unworkmanlike
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It's pretty easy to look bulletproof when your enemies are shooting blanks.
I remember one night, over several drinks, I told my friend everything: Am I shooting blanks?
By that time, the guards who'd been shooting blanks from that rapid-fire gun got in a clip of live rounds and fired at him.
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On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shooting blanks, such as: disorganized, faulty, feeble, incompetent, ineffective, and ineffectual.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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