loose cannon

If you’re too much of a loose cannon, others can either just take you out or decide never to enter negotiations with you in the first place.

Oh, and the company had a loose cannon liability in the driver’s seat in Elon Musk.

We tend to overestimate how much a politician like that can drag down their national party, but Greene’s lack of remorse and candor reinforces how much of a loose cannon she could be moving forward.

As for the wife, she is a loose cannon, willing to sacrifice the people close to her to get what she wants.

Cooper and Renner are solid as the loose cannon Richie and the upstanding Carmine, respectively.

Churchill, on the contrary, they regarded with alarm, a loose cannon, a rogue elephant.

When Diana called for an international ban, seven months before she died, a Tory minister accused her of being a "loose cannon".

While some would be afraid to hire such a loose cannon, others see raw talent.

A man reached the head of the ladder, stepped upon one of the loose cannon-balls and fell with an oath and a crash.