shooting match

He would “end this affair with a bonfire and shooting match.”

“That’s the whole shooting match, guys. When I talk about running football, I’m not talking about running the football in the first quarter, the second quarter. That’s not really what it is. It’s so that you have it to win football games. That’s where you can really play championship football, when you can complete the opportunity. And that’s what you saw today.”

It's a slippery slope from a shooting match along the lines of the film "The Favourite," to angrily then grudgingly working together, then to making out in the wreckage of a plane.

American officials have voiced concern that Chinese and Japanese coast guard forces could be drawn into a shooting match as they patrol the island chain and are authorized by their governments to use deadly force to defend them.

One year his father had won a pig in a shooting match and raised it to a hog.