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stare down the barrel of something idiom(also look down the barrel of sth) to have a weapon aimed directly at you: He opened the door and found himself staring down the barrel of a gun. He got out of the car, looked down the barrel of a rifle pointing in his face, and told the gunman to calm down. to be facing a situation that is unpleasant or dangerous: The President is unlikely to act until he's staring down the barrel of a gun. Various countries are staring down the barrel of recession. The team is looking down the barrel of their seventh straight defeat. In the past she had often stared down the barrel of depression. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Dangers and threats balefully baneful banefully black spot hang hang over something hazard hazardous hazardously non-lethal on/under pain of deathidiom or elseidiom parlous parlously someone's bark is worse than his/her biteidiom tombstoning treacherously triple threat ultra-hazardous venturesome |