half-cocked

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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

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

“I think it is absolutely essential that we stay focused on how, in this transitional period, nobody loses their head, nobody goes off half-cocked, people don’t start ginning up scatterbrained or revengeful premises,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2016

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