like a loose cannon

“And he skipped the debate today because he doesn’t think he has to answer. Given everything that’s going on in this country, that is fatal to his campaign. You deserve a senator that you can trust to show up, and not to act like a loose cannon.”

Although Sondland said that Giuliani "was expressing the desires of the President of the United States," Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., suggested to reporters outside the hearing room that if Giuliani was "off on his own mission doing things that people didn't know about, kind of like a loose cannon, then that's a Rudy Giuliani thing, that's not a President Trump thing."

Lamborn suggested that if Giuliani was "off on his own mission doing things that people didn't know about, kind of like a loose cannon, then that's a Rudy Giuliani thing, that's not a President Trump thing."

“He seemed like a loose cannon,” she told the newspaper, adding that the couple complied with the man’s demands before he turned around and shot Lee, who is well known on the city’s local music scene.

Josh Keating reminds us that Grenell may look like a loose cannon, but he’s “fully in line with his boss’s thinking and preferences.”