Brush up on reality before you go off half-cocked. From Wordnik.com. [Is Hillary Outperforming Obama Against McCain Among Working Class Voters In Key Swing States?] Reference
And you know, they went off half-cocked, basically. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2009] Reference
There is no room in the Guard for half-cocked impulses. From Wordnik.com. [Timegod's World]
Tempers will go off half-cocked even among men of good habit. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
Instead he had gone off half-cocked, like a damned schoolboy. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
We're not going off half-cocked, the full story tonight on 360. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2007] Reference
He's not working with a lawyer, he's just going off half-cocked. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2002] Reference
We're not going off half-cocked -- the full story tonight on 360. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2007] Reference
The moon was bright enough for me to see his half-cocked eyebrow. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
He didn't quite -- half-cocked it and he said, I'm going kill you. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2008] Reference
This just seems like such a half-cocked selection (no pun intended). From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Saturday Roundup] Reference
He didn't quite -- half-cocked it, and he said, "I'm going kill you.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2008] Reference
His half-cocked smile and his standpat spurs really jingle my jangle. From Wordnik.com. [The Top Five Reasons I'd Boff Dick Cheney] Reference
One of these days it'll be needed, but it mustn't go off half-cocked. From Wordnik.com. [Space]
Olivia Benson had her hands full last week with her half-cocked partner. From Wordnik.com. [Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News] Reference
Next time give it some thought before you go off half-cocked again, maybe. From Wordnik.com. [Report: Bush Officials Not Happy About Possible Obama Speech At Brandenburg Gate] Reference
Yet he found himself on Annette's lawn, his car parked, half-cocked on the curb. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Pockets] Reference
Thoroughness is the way of duty, rather than a speed which goes off half-cocked. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
This country simply has no history of going to war half-cocked and trigger-happy. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Waiting For The Heads to Roll] Reference
ANNE BREMNER, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: He doesn ` t want to go off, as he says, half-cocked. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2007] Reference
My point is that no one goes off half-cocked on their on in this sort of bureaucracy. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking: Gates Distances Himself From Edelman's Attack On Hillary Clinton] Reference
Lacking evidence to drum up polygamous fear, their argument was merely 'half-cocked.'. From Wordnik.com. [Polygamy: Loading The Barrels To Ignite the Right] Reference
No, almost no one in Congress believed Hussein had a nuclear weapon half-cocked at us. From Wordnik.com. [Teddy's Little Dig At The Clintons On Iraq] Reference
Give him credit for that, at least, before you go off half-cocked with some idea of" ". From Wordnik.com. [Wild Blood]
Me ... if that had happened to Loragerd, I'd have gone off half-cocked no matter what. From Wordnik.com. [Timegod's World]
It's just half-cocked punky chants of the type concocted by numerous jokey support bands. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews] Reference
It's just one more example, he told himself, of the stupidity of starting off half-cocked. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Legend]
I guess we don't want to run off half-cocked until we actually know what we're dealing with. From Wordnik.com. [Changeling]
The four-round cylinder was one-round shy, the half-cocked hammer resting over an empty chamber. From Wordnik.com. [The End Is Coming]
Before running off half-cocked assuming that I'm questioning the mayor's gravitas -- far from it. From Wordnik.com. [Byron Williams: Last Minute Shopping] Reference
I started to tell him to take it easy, not to go off half-cocked, but he was already moving away. From Wordnik.com. [Hoodwink]
None of the above means that any of them will go off half-cocked and “off” their entire family. From Wordnik.com. [Santa Killer: It's a Losing Battle to Try to Psyche Him Out] Reference
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