go off at half-cock

1. 1.

   act prematurely or without reflection or too soon

   “she wanted to quit her job but her mother told her not to go off half-cocked”

   Synonymsgo off half-cocked

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Questions about go off at half-cock

What does go off at half-cock mean?

go off at half-cock means "act prematurely or without reflection or too soon".

What is another word for go off at half-cock?

Close synonyms include go off half-cocked. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is go off at half-cock a common word?

go off at half-cock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.