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half-cock
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half-cock
Noun
go off at half-cock or half-cocked to fail because of lack of preparation
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Noun1.half-cock - confusion resulting from lack of preparation
confusedness, disarray, mental confusion, muddiness, confusion - a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior; "a confusion of impressions"


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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.
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