shoot holes

shoot holes (third-person singular simple present shoots holes, present participle shooting holes, simple past and past participle shot holes)

1. (idiomatic) Find faults.
   • 1952, Hope Angel, Illinois Education - Volume 41, Illinois Education Association, page 124:

     Anytime you want to shoot holes in our ideas, don't hesitate to do so.

   • 1960, California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Constitutional Amendments, Digest of Testimony, The Committee, page 8:

     One by one, we can shoot holes through possible standards by which the Commission on Qualifications could evaluate nominees for the trial courts.

   • 2006, Janine Antoni, Shoot the Family, Independent Curators International, →ISBN:

     Many of the works in this exhibition also shoot holes in our conventional assumptions about family portraiture.