gone off half-cocked
Example Sentences
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"It's not fair to them to have somebody just show up at the last minute and run. I may have gone off half-cocked yesterday, but that's the way I feel."
From US News ● Jun. 8, 2014
Impressed, Assistant Secretary Lowman decided that the Treasury had "gone off half-cocked."
From Time Magazine Archive
Day reported in the Courier-Journal that Pearson had gone off half-cocked on some loosely assembled, unchecked information.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alone, she might have gone off half-cocked in an emotional tizzy.
From Highways in Hiding by Smith, George Oliver
Well——I don't suppose I ought to have gone off half-cocked, and not jollied him along.
From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
