shoot holes in

“Being a public defender, all you do is go in and shoot holes in the wall,” Reisig said.

You can talk yourself out of anyone and shoot holes in anyone.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration has been moving to shoot holes in the economic safety net by pushing initiatives that would throw millions of households off the food stamp program and thousands off Medicaid.

What's even more frightening is how quickly his fellow Republicans in Congress and his supporters in the media got in line, rifles in hand, to shoot holes in it.

Popular theories have suggested that the crew of the Housatonic managed to shoot holes in the craft; that the Hunley accidentally collided with another ship; or that its crew were incapacitated, and perhaps instantly killed, by the blast from the submarine’s own torpedo.