shoot blanks

[Paul Frank]

Dipping into David Rakoff's Half Empty (it's so funny I have to read
other books in between), I've just come across the very common
expression "to shoot blanks" (to be sterile), which I'm sure we've all
heard hundreds of times over the years. It's not in the online OED or
any paper dictionary I know of.

Paul

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