"shoot holes" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "shoots holes",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shooting holes",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shot holes",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shot holes",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "shoot holes (third-person singular simple present shoots holes, present participle shooting holes, simple past and past participle shot holes)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1952, Hope Angel, Illinois Education - Volume 41, Illinois Education Association, page 124:",
          "text": "Anytime you want to shoot holes in our ideas, don't hesitate to do so.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Constitutional Amendments, Digest of Testimony, The Committee, page 8:",
          "text": "One by one, we can shoot holes through possible standards by which the Commission on Qualifications could evaluate nominees for the trial courts.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Janine Antoni, Shoot the Family, Independent Curators International, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Many of the works in this exhibition also shoot holes in our conventional assumptions about family portraiture.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Find faults."
      ],
      "id": "en-shoot_holes-en-verb-pia5fxDh",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Find faults."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "gaten schieten in"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "gat schieten in"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shoot holes"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shoots holes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shooting holes",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shot holes",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shot holes",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "shoots holes",
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1952, Hope Angel, Illinois Education - Volume 41, Illinois Education Association, page 124:",
          "text": "Anytime you want to shoot holes in our ideas, don't hesitate to do so.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Constitutional Amendments, Digest of Testimony, The Committee, page 8:",
          "text": "One by one, we can shoot holes through possible standards by which the Commission on Qualifications could evaluate nominees for the trial courts.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Janine Antoni, Shoot the Family, Independent Curators International, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Many of the works in this exhibition also shoot holes in our conventional assumptions about family portraiture.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Find faults."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) Find faults."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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      "word": "gaten schieten in"
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      "word": "gat schieten in"
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  "word": "shoot holes"
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