Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Open fire
Open fire verb - Start firing a weapon.
Both terms in one sentence
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He wears mirrored glasses to keep people from seeing his obviously-infected eyes, and the second Jill and Chris open fire, begins teleporting around the room and dodging bullets like he just stepped right out of the Matrix.
Source: Scary Shiny Glasses -
In Scribblenauts, when you are explicitly required to not kill a specific threat, you're free to open fire with a freeze ray to keep them out of your way; they'll thaw out, unharmed, a short time later.
Source: Harmless Freezing - When Captain Otto is about to be forced by Angelo to open fire on a friendly ship to keep it from giving away the Neo-Zeon task group's location or witness his captured crewmembers being executed, the formerly ineffective and bumbling captain finally snaps and tells Angelo just where to stick it.
Source: "Hell, Yes!" Moment
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