"under fire" meaning in English

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          "text": "courage under fire",
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          "text": "coolness under fire",
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          "ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: Military Doctrine Codex entry",
          "text": "Enlisted personnel are thoroughly trained and stay calm under fire. Turian units don't break. Even if their entire line collapses, they fall back in order, setting ambushes as they go.",
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        "Subjected to enemy attack with firearms."
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          "enemy",
          "enemy"
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          "attack",
          "attack"
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          "firearm",
          "firearm"
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          "sense": "subject to enemy attack with firearms",
          "word": "tulituksessa"
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          "text": "grace under fire",
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          "ref": "1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard",
          "text": "The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife—shrill, vehement, and fluent. […] He had learned, by long experience, the best tactique under fire: he became actually taciturn; or, if he spoke, his speech was laconic and enigmatical; sometimes throwing out a proverb, and sometimes a text; and sometimes when provoked past endurance, spouting mildly a little bit of meek and venomous irony.",
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          "ref": "2009, Michael O'Connor, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 2",
          "text": "Meanwhile, the government's own Human Services department is under fire from the Ombudsman for its failure to protect children in its care."
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          "ref": "2020 June 3, Andrew Mourant, “A safer railway in a greener habitat”, in Rail, page 58",
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        "Criticized or held responsible for something."
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        "(figurative) Criticized or held responsible for something."
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          "sense": "criticized for something",
          "word": "tulituksessa"
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          "sense": "criticized for something",
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          "text": "Meanwhile, the government's own Human Services department is under fire from the Ombudsman for its failure to protect children in its care."
        },
        {
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        "(figurative) Criticized or held responsible for something."
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "subject to enemy attack with firearms",
      "word": "tulituksessa"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "criticized for something",
      "word": "tulituksessa"
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      "sense": "criticized for something",
      "word": "estar en la mira"
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  "word": "under fire"
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