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