plural of shot across the bow

(idiomatic) A warning that negative consequences will be faced if something is carried out or allowed to continue.

plural of shot across the bows

Alternative form of shot across the bow

(US, politics) To come to a bipartisan agreement; to compromise with the adversary party.

(idiomatic, of the technique for committing suicide) Along the radial artery rather than across the wrist from side to side.

(Ireland) To give one a sudden fright.

(chiefly in the negative) Synonym of trust someone as far as one could throw them

(obsolete or dialectal) across

(obsolete) across