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go off at half-cock |
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go off at half-cock (old-fashioned, 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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In other words, the major media went off half-cocked on a lynch party to Duke, but the posse holstered its weapons and galloped for the sagebrush on the crime at Fresno. When the church leadership, which supposedly represents the whole church, goes off half-cocked voting to elect gays to leadership positions, does this leadership truly believe that it is doing what the whole congregation of God's people wish or is it jamming its beliefs down the laity's throats? Poor students can't go to college because Bush went off half-cocked. |
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half-cocked
