go off at half-cock

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go off at half-cock (old-fashioned) also go off half-cocked (old-fashioned)

to suddenly give your opinion without preparing what you are saying or understanding the subject you are talking about, often because you are angry You don't listen. You just go off at half-cock without even hearing the end of my sentence.

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Damned if you do, damned if you don't, damned if you hurry - like Hank Paulson in the US - damned if you sew up the details - as Darling has tried to do - rather than go off at half-cock. Repeat after me: the bankers took the bumpers and the airbags out of ... by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk In London, the April 30 news that a large Iraqi force had invested Habbaniya caused the chiefs to exult that their intervention in Basra had caused Rachid Ali's plot to go off at half-cock before the Axis could organize support for the regime. The other gulf war: British intervention in Iraq, 1941 by Porch, Douglas / Joint Force Quarterly So now it's come up with another scheme that has no certain outcome and is destined to go off at half-cock. GEORGE TYNDALE: LABOUR MISDIAGNOSE NHS YET AGAIN by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)			go into a song and dance go into a tailspin go into act go into action go into detail go into effect go into freefall go into hiding go into hock go into orbit go into overdrive go into raptures go into service go into the service go it alone Go jump in a lake! go like a bomb go like a rocket go like clockwork go like hot cakes go live go mental go native go near go nowhere go off at half-cock go off half-cocked go off on a tangent go off the boil go off the deep end go off the rails go on a binge go on a rampage go on before go on for an age go on record go on strike go on the block go on to a better land go on tour go on with go one better go out in search of go out of business go out of fashion go out of service go out of way go out of way to go out on a limb go out the window go over big			Go Learn Online go light on go light on go light on go light on go like a bomb go like a rocket go like clockwork go like hot cakes go like the wind go live go live Go long Go Look on Google go mental go native go near go near go next Go No Go go no-go go nowhere go nowhere Go Null Yourself go nuts go off go off go off go off go off at a tangent go off at half-cock go off half-cocked go off half-cocked go off kilter go off on a tangent go off on a tangent go off the boil go off the deep end go off the deep end go off the deep end go off the deep end go off the deep end go off the rails go on go on go on go on go on a binge go on a diet go on a fishing expedition go on a fool's errand go on a power trip go on a rampage go on a spree go on an errand go on an outing go on before go on doing go on doing something go on foot go on for ages

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