go off half-cocked

[go off half-cocked] also [go off at half cock] {v. phr.}, {informal} To act or speak before getting ready; to do something too soon.

* /Bill often goes off half cocked./

* /Mr. Jones was thinking about quilting his job, but his wife told him not to go at half cock./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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