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blaze away en · VERB
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(idiomatic, intransitive) To fire (firearms) repeatedly.
Scott, somewhat stunned and now worried that everybody might have opened fire at the U.S. destroyers (he presumably missed Laffey and Farenholt merrily blazing away with their own guns into the darkness), ordered all firing to cease after a couple of minutes.
2020 December 9, Drachinifel, 20:18 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Cape Esperance (IJN 1 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
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(figuratively, intransitive, slang) To endeavor; to work enthusiastically.
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