i always thought the point was that even if you miss, you've now shot a hole through the barrel and the water will drain out, killing the fish anyways
Even if you miss, the shockwaves the bullet makes will kill every fish in the barrel anyway. The Mythbusters tested it.
sure, but i guess what i mean is like, that's why the meaning of the idiom is clear to me even having not tested or watched someone test what the actual effect of firing a gun into a barrel full of fish would be. if you were ever in a conversation, prior to watching that episode, wherein someone used the idiom to describe a task, and you were like "oh, you mean that'll be easy, because the shockwave from a gun shot would kill all of the fish in a barrel at the same time", before you watched the mythbusters episode, i guess you're a lot smarter than me
i always thought the point was that even if you miss, you've now shot a hole through the barrel and the water will drain out, killing the fish anyways
Even if you miss, the shockwaves the bullet makes will kill every fish in the barrel anyway. The Mythbusters tested it.
sure, but i guess what i mean is like, that's why the meaning of the idiom is clear to me even having not tested or watched someone test what the actual effect of firing a gun into a barrel full of fish would be. if you were ever in a conversation, prior to watching that episode, wherein someone used the idiom to describe a task, and you were like "oh, you mean that'll be easy, because the shockwave from a gun shot would kill all of the fish in a barrel at the same time", before you watched the mythbusters episode, i guess you're a lot smarter than me