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The phrase "always under fire" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is consistently facing criticism or scrutiny.
Example: "As a public figure, she feels like she is always under fire for her decisions and actions."
Alternatives: "constantly criticized" or "perpetually scrutinized".
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"Her competence was always under fire.
St. Pierre is blessed with uncanny athletic ability and an encyclopedic mind for martial arts techniques, but he's always under fire for playing fights safe, for doing just enough to win but not enough to dazzle.
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Such events, he stressed, are always coming under fire for their invitees.
"She did for everyone, and she was always grace under fire".
But she will always be under fire from those who see her emergence as, in the words of an e-mail spreading across the country, "a national shame".
ROSE UNDER FIRE By Elizabeth Wein Hyperion, $17.99.
CONDUCT UNDER FIRE, by John A. Glusman.
Goalkeepers are always under-appreciated.
My mother has always been calm under fire, a voice of reason.
Always – always – make them fire you.
Nor do they ever panic under fire.
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