half-cocked
Example Sentences
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Never has it been easier to go off half-cocked.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 5, 2023
To Rafael’s bildungsroman amid half-cocked terrorists and a love triangle with their leaders, add a spy-novel parody, a kaleidoscopic Christ narrative, a battery of literary references and a portrait of Cuban life under socialism.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
If the hammer was quarter or half-cocked, the gun “could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger,” per the report cited by ABC News.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 13, 2022
Others were also unenthusiastic, with Henry Hitchings giving it two stars in The Evening Standard, and The Hollywood Reporter describing it as "half-cocked".
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2018
Educated middle-class professionals never go careening half-cocked into the future, vulnerable to any surprise that might leap out at them.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
