Metaphorically speaking, if you're on the firing line, you're in the forefront of an activity or endeavor, being the first to taste and bear with any hardship that comes your way. In other words, you're exposed to danger and risk.
All right, here are media examples of "firing line":
1. The big banks are in the firing line, with the financial services royal commission hearing they leave themselves open to findings of significant breaches of companies and credit law.
At the end of the first fortnight of sitting, counsel assisting Rowena Orr detailed a long list of misconduct, poor behaviour and breaches of law, calling on commissioner Kenneth Hayne to consider their implications for his report, due in December.
Areas of misconduct include “home loans, car loans, credit cards and overdraft facilities”, she told the commission. NAB bankers falsified documents, accepted dodgy information and took kickbacks from lending introducers.
As a result, 10 bankers lost their jobs, including branch managers, 10 resigned and 32 were disciplined. Their actions expose the bank to findings of misleading and deceptive conduct, among others.
- Royal commission: Banks under the gun as laundry list of misconduct is laid bare, TheNewDaily.com, March 23, 2018.
2. The Volusia-Flagler area was forecast to be a hiring hotbed this year. Instead, employers here could be forced to lay off workers as the coronavirus outbreak shuts increasing segments of the economy.
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