fire the starting gun

Meaning: (idiomatic,often followed byon)Tolaunchortriggeraneventorsituation.Hypernym:start2018November 19, Kalyeena Makortoff, “Noel Edmonds likely to file £60m Lloyds lawsuit on Wednesday”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:The TV and radio star Noel Edmonds, who is expected to join ITV’s I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here jungle camp this week, is also likely tofire the starting gunon a £60m lawsuit against Lloyds Bank.2023May 17, Jamie Smyth, “Quick blood tests to spot cancer: will they help or harm patients?”, inFinancial Times‎[2]:Halks-Miller’s discoveryfired the starting gunon the race to develop a diagnostic blood test. Illumina spun off a new company, Grail, to develop the test, raising more than $2bn from investors including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and the Chinese company Tencent.

Examples:

EN: And now, to fire the starting gun... is recently paroled presidential assassin, John Hinckley.
ES: Y ahora, dará el primer disparo, el asesino presidencial en libertad condicional, John Hinckley.
EN: Please fire the starting gun so that I can start moving.
ID: Jadi agar aku bisa mulai, aku ingin kau menembak pistol start untukku.

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