The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday. The gunman hardly broke stride as he nonetheless shot Merabet in the head, killing him. A policewoman was shot dead this morning while law enforcement searched for the Charlie Lebdo killers.
There was no fighting; a rifle shot now and then from the crests where we saw our fellows clearly. A was an Archer, who shot at a frog; B was a Butcher, and had a great dog. Dockier, a prominent leader of the Levelers, in the times of the English commonwealth, was shot by order of the government. Cheap as they are, they are a poorer speculation than even corner lots in a lithographic city of Nebraska or Oregon.
Sometimes with mixture of sense 14b. Also cheap shot N. OED Online. September Oxford University Press. Attested from as 'shot' and from as 'cheap shot'. Sense 14b refers to "a cannonball". Elsewhere than in OED Online , 'cheap shot' is defined more generally to include actions as well as remarks.
Such definitions more accurately reflect the range of figurative senses I am familiar with:. The first of the two early attestations may be interpreted as a literal reference to the two dollars spent for a shot that killed forty-seven ducks.
However, the decades-long series of elaborations and reproductions of the story, in works such as More puniana; or, Thoughts wise and otherwhy's , , suggest otherwise. The second early attestation of the phrase, a use in figurative sense 9b , is quite evidently an elaborate pun:.
The Adelaide Chronicle , 27 Jul Chronologically between those two early attestations of the figurative sense 9b in anecdotal puns is this rather more prosaic use of the term in another British publication. Here the sense of 'cheap' is literal 'inexpensive' and the use of 'shot' is figurative:.
Hard on the heels of the and uses of the term in figurative sense 9b comes a third such use, a slanted Australian use in a political context pertaining to religosity:. The Freeman's Journal , Sydney, 24 Nov Later, in , a use with reference to sports hockey appears.
In this use, 'shot' has the extended literal sense of an 'attempt to hit with a projectile' the goal with the hockey puck , while 'cheap' has the extended figurative sense of 'easily obtained' used somewhat disparagingly:. As the college boys connected first, on a rather cheap shot at that, the older fellows bore right in to even the count and they did. The Heights , Boston College, 29 Jan Aside from uses in political contexts with disparaging reference to remarks in debates Parliamentary Debates Hansard : House of Commons Official Report, Volume , , the next use I discovered was also a reference to sports—this time cricket:.
The Cairns Post , Queensland, 31 Dec The sense of that use is somewhat opaque to me, unfamiliar as I am with cricket jargon, but I surmise the use may be a more or less literal reference to 'shot' in the sense given earlier 9a , preceded by a figurative reference to 'cheap'. Following the year history of development shown above, uses with reference to professional US football and boxing began to make appearances in the s.
In these uses, the 'shot' is with a human body employed as a projectile, and the cheapness lies in the unexpected or sneaky nature of the hit. Along with those uses are others pertaining to discreditable actions and remarks:.
Basing objections to a Trustee's fee on the time he expended in a case is an easy way to take a cheap shot. Film Culture , By the time the Vikings come in here next Sunday, every club in the league will know you've got a bad temper.
So they will work on you. It won't be dirty. But you'll hear lots of conversation out there and if a guy gets a cheap shot at you, he'll I didn't take any cheap shot at Ryan. I was retiring. Why would I want to do something like that? But everything reverted to my original statement that I wanted another shot at him. It got all twisted around. The realm of sport , Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry , Once again the New York Times called for the abolition of boxing in an editorial.
Time , Players who specialize in such tactics are called cheap- shot artists. This category is further broken down to include back-shot artists and blind-siders.
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