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be gunning for someone
idiom informal
to often criticize someone or be trying to cause trouble for them: 时常指责（某人），不时找（某人）的茬，经常寻衅
She's been gunning for me ever since I got the promotion she wanted.自从我被提升到她觊觎的那个职位后，她就一直在找我的茬。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Disapproving & criticizing
anathematize
animadversion
aspersion
aw
backbite
barrel
bash
belabour
boo
disapprobation
excoriate
knocker
let someone have both barrelsidiom
low blow
mordacious
mordancy
nitpicker
pile
slam
union-basher
be gunning for something
idiom
USinformal
to make a great effort to get or win something: 努力取得（或赢得）（某物）
Irwin is gunning for his third straight championship.埃尔温正在努力争取连续第三次获得冠军。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Trying and making an effort
A game
all out
assault
attempt
attempted
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go after someone
go all outidiom
go down swinging/fightingidiom
go for itidiom
go for someone
nose
shoot for the moonidiom
shoot the worksidiom
smarten (someone/something) up
smarten up your actidiom
spare
square the circleidiom
stretch
struggle
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