also firing-line
( firing lines)
1.
If you are in the firing line in a conflict, you are in a position where someone is aiming their gun at you.
Any hostages in the firing line would have been sacrificed...
N-COUNT : usu the N in sing , usu prep N
2.
If you say that someone is in the firing line , you mean that they are being criticized, blamed, or attacked for something.
Foreign banks are in the firing line too...
N-SING : the N , usu in/out of N