| 词源 |
potshot. A potshot was originally “a shot for the pot,” that is, a shot taken at an animal in order to fill the dinner pot, without any regard for rules and from any distance, no matter how close. The earlier pothunter, first recorded in 1781, suggested the word, which came to mean, in both military and civilian use, a shot aimed at somebody within easy reach, without giv- ing the person any chance to defend himself, as in an ambush. An abbreviation is to pot somebody. |