go off half-cocked

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 at half-cock

   Broaderact

Questions about go off half-cocked

What does go off half-cocked mean?

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

What is another word for go off half-cocked?

Close synonyms include go off at half-cock. 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 half-cocked a common word?

go off half-cocked 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.