shooting from the hip

The tightrope that you have to walk, hence the reason we need certain people running our country and not shooting from the hip.

Mr King, 63, said he had met McFarland several months ago to discuss Fyre II but he feared his former business partner hadn't "learned a lot in prison... he's shooting from the hip again".

So you're sort of shooting from the hip in a really different way where even though you might get to do the character for much longer, for years sometimes, and then it just sinks into your bones and becomes an innate part of you, at the same time, you're learning new things about your character.

“He was shooting from the hip.”

And he urged the BBC "to calm down, ignore the papers," to chart a course forward for both the organisation and Lineker and to avoid "shooting from the hip" in a bid to resolve the row.