ins Visier geraten

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ins Visier geraten (class 7 strong, third-person singular present gerät ins Visier, past tense geriet ins Visier, past participle ins Visier geraten, auxiliary sein)

  1. (idiomatic) to become a target
    • 2004, Der Spiegel[1], number 48/2004, page 18:
      Der selbst ernannte Saubermann des Europa-Parlaments […] ist selbst ins Visier der Betrugsermittler der EU geraten.
      The self-declared "Mr. Clean" of the European Parliament […] has himself become a target of the fraud investigators of the EU.

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