hang fire

For a long time, however, they continue to hang fire.

It will be four or five days before I can wind up a few things hanging fire.

The campaign hung fire; he prepared to set out himself.

Through the days that followed while the trial hung fire.

I hung fire, but Harris went to sleep at once.

The appointment, if there was to be another, still hung fire.

The whole thing I seemed to hang fire just for a moment - then smash!

It's been hanging fire since it was announced in February.

For most of the day, the situation wavered and hung fire.

You see- Well, there is an interesting transplant case which has been hanging fire.

"Especially if their appeal to me is still hanging fire.

He watches me carefully, hanging fire until I catch up with him.

"We've such a ploy on now, but it's been hanging fire because we needed a front for the first move."

"I think we'll hang fire on that for a while,' said the President.

Or had rust caused the mechanism to again hang fire?

But he would still be hanging fire until he became a professor and a father.

"No, not so bad as that, for they passed within ten yards of me, but the old gun hung fire.

I'm going to hang fire just the same.

He hung fire but finally conceded that he had moved the tree.

There are dozens of similar cases presently hanging fire.

He hung fire for a moment, frowning to himself, before he finally started speaking again.

More like a pistol hanging fire, a match poised above a fuse.

The girls at my school all hung fire.

We were hanging fire with the Fox job.