English to French Meaning of flak - tir antiaérien

Flak :

tir antiaérien

noun

tir antiaérien

Flak :: canon antiaérienFlaked :: émiettéFlakes :: floconsFlaking :: écaillageFlaky :: floconneux

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Definitions of flak in English

Noun(1) a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer(2) intense adverse criticism(3) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes

Examples of flak in English

(1) Coming at night, they dropped bombs and lost a few aircraft to flak .(2) During the bomb run, a piece of flak the size of a small baseball came through the radar set and struck the Lieutenant in the stomach.(3) He steadfastly continued to take the flak for his players until two monumentally awful home defeats to Birmingham and Liverpool.(4) Do the police not realise that they would have to take the flak if some pedestrian happened to skid and fall on the rank pile?(5) I did not see any enemy aircraft on the mission, just a lot of flak over Holland.(6) The crew could hear metallic pattering on their plane as the run in continued through heavier flak .(7) For all the recent flak , many Tories are in ridiculously high spirits.(8) No stranger to taking flak from a variety of critics, Elan has come for more unwelcome attention recently.(9) Opposition was expected to be medium to heavy flak with possible fighter opposition.(10) As we left the English coast, a hail of flak went up from a ship in mid-Channel right where we were headed.(11) It wouldn't be the first time the industry was made to pick up the tab and take the flak for flawed political policies.(12) you must be strong enough to take the flak if things go wrong(13) We conservatives often take a lot of flak for being overly critical of the liberal viewpoint.(14) The mission went well except for some inaccurate flak which didn't cause too much concern.(15) Unlike bomber crews, we could take violent evasive action to get out of accurate heavy flak .(16) In fact, as soon as you cross the border into the Netherlands, you run into a curtain of flak and a few squadrons of fighters.

Related Phrases of flak

(1) flak jacket ::

gilet pare-balles

Related Phrases of flak

(1) flak jacket ::

gilet pare-balles

Synonyms

Noun

1. antiaircraft fire ::

feu antiaérien

2. criticism ::

critique

3. attack ::

attaque

4. ack-ack gun ::

gun DCA

5. flack ::

pare-balles

Different Forms

flak, flaky

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