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                           Phrase(s): take a potshot at someone or something  1. Lit. to shoot at someone or something, as with a shotgun. (A potshot refers to the type of shooting done to provide meat for the cooking pot.)  •  The hunters were taking potshots at each other in the woods.  •  Someone has been taking potshots at my mailbox! 2. Fig. to criticize or censure someone or something, often just to be mean.  •  Why are you taking potshots at me? What did I do to you?  •  Everyone in the audience was taking potshots at the comedian’s toupee.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
                        McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs