pinch hit

The most recent issue contains detailed instructions for building car bombs, and the magazine frequently draws up hit-lists.

The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.

I was friends with her drummer from Sleater-Kinney, and I met Carrie, and we just hit it off.

We hit it off amazingly well, and started a real friendship.

They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.

Many of us had been hit by the balls, but a bruise or a graze of the skin was the worst consequence that had ensued.

He shut his fist and hit Butterface a weak but well intended right-hander on the nose.

One of the men seemed pretty bad, being hit in the head and in the body.

Here are pretty goings on—a pinch of your snuff, Perker, my boy—never were such times, eh?

He could hit upon no plan, and he couldn't muster confidence to turn in.