🇬🇧 en fr 🇫🇷

point-blank adjective

  • Disconcertingly straightforward or blunt; outright.
à brûle-pourpoint
  • (ballistics) The distance between a firearm and a target where a projectile in flight is expected to strike the centre of the target without adjusting the elevation of the firearm.
de but en blanc, à bout portant

point-blank adverb

  • In a direct manner, without hesitation.
à brûle-pourpoint, de but en blanc
Wiktionary Links