friendly fire

noun

Insurance. a fire deliberately set and remaining contained, as in a fireplace or boiler, from which any resulting loss cannot be claimed as an insurance liability ( hostile fire ).
(in military combat) fire, as by artillery, by one's own forces, especially when causing damage near or casualties to one's own troops.

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There are too many opportunities for friendly fire, for civilian casualties, for insurgent ambushes.

The Democratic state senator may also be facing friendly fire.

Another fine life bled out beside a petroleum facility when he was killed by friendly fire.

How would people in the audience have known that here was a bearer of friendly fire, not an accomplice in the massacre?

Mitt Romney is a two-time loser this week, hobbled by Democratic attacks and friendly fire from his own side.

For the toiling Pilgrim in the vast and pathless Desert of Facts there was no kindly face, no friendly fire.

Dinner at nine o'clock, before the big open hearth, with a friendly fire.

Their eyes would meet and Colfax's would gleam with a savage but friendly fire.

He sat and listened and looked into the warm deep heart of the friendly fire.

No hope remained save that he might be tossed up on the beach somewhere near the friendly fire that was burning as a beacon.

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