miss fire

“For more than a month, it was humanly impossible to miss ‘Fire and Fury,’” Rubin wrote in his memoir “Words and Music,” published earlier this year.

Woman, six children die in Miss. fire: A woman and her six children died when a fire destroyed their home early Saturday in central Mississippi, authorities said.

The match might be a burned one, it might miss fire, or go out before he had an opportunity to kindle the leaves, or the leaves themselves might be too damp to burn.

"That's just where you'll miss fire," the other rejoined.

But the words are quoted in a hundred books and pamphlets, and are used like theological revolvers which never miss fire.