blaze away

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Verb

blaze away (third-person singular simple present blazes away, present participle blazing away, simple past and past participle blazed away)

1. (firearms, intransitive, idiomatic) To fire (firearms) repeatedly.
   • 2020 December 9, Drachinifel, 20:18 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Cape Esperance (IJN 1 : 2 USN)‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 December 2022:

     Scott, somewhat stunned and now worried that everybody might have opened fire at the U.S. destroyers (he presumably missed Laffey and Farenholt merrily blazing away with their own guns into the darkness), ordered all firing to cease after a couple of minutes.

2. (intransitive, slang, figurative) To endeavor; to work enthusiastically.