fire a warning shot
C1CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
To signal gently that difficult news is coming, so the patient can prepare emotionally.
I fired a warning shot by saying the results were more serious than we had hoped.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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