(idiomatic, transitive) To motivate or encourage (someone) to start sooner or move faster.

(US) A prank performed while stopped in a car at a red light, and where each passenger, including the driver, shouts "Chinese fire drill", exits the vehicle, runs at least once around it, then re-enters, each taking a different seat.

Do not discharge a weapon. Used originally for weapons needing a spark or lighting of a fuse to ignite gunpowder; now sometimes used to mean any weapon launching a projectile.

To refrain from criticism.

An electrical discharge, or corona, seen around pointed objects, caused by ionization of the atmosphere during storms.

A horn on a fire alarm that sounds in case of fire, either automatically when the system detects fire or manually when the alarm is pulled, to alert the occupants of a building or complex of the hazard.

(idiomatic) A final effort, a final attempt before stopping.

(idiomatic) To operate as effectively as possible.

Alternative form of add fuel to the fire.

Gossip and accusations are often substantiated by fact.