fire the starting gun (English, verb)
expansion: fire the starting gun (third-person singular simple present fires the starting gun, present participle firing the starting gun, simple past and past participle fired the starting gun)
Senses:
glosses: To launch or trigger an event or situation.
tags: idiomatic
often
raw_tags: followed by on
Forms:
form: fires the starting gun
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: firing the starting gun
tags: participle
present
form: fired the starting gun
tags: participle
past
form: fired the starting gun
tags: past