List of synonyms from "half beaufort scale" to synonyms from "half-cooked"
Discover all the synonyms available for the terms half-castes, half-boot, half-breed, half blood, half-cooked, half beaufort scales and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the synonyms associated with it.
- Half beaufort scale
- Half-Beaufort scale
- Half beaufort scales
- Half-beaufort scales
- Half-blood
- Half blood
- Half-bloods
- Half-boot
- Half boot
- Half-boots
- Half boots
- Half bred
- Half breds
- Half-breds
- Half breed
- Half-breed
- Half-caste
- Half caste
- Half-castes
- Half castes
- Half-cocked
- Half cocked
- Half cooked
- Half-cooked
Definition of the day : « half cocked »
- As in premature : adj rash, impulsive
- As in dilettante : adj amateurish
- I wouldn't be surprised to see you go off half cocked and blow us all up.
- Extract from : « Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa » by George W. Peck
- They say I have too many theories—go off half cocked and all that sort of thing.
- Extract from : « On Secret Service » by William Nelson Taft
- Hence "to go off half cocked" originally meant that the burning fuse dropped into the powder pan before it was wanted.
- Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 » by Various
- My friend's gun is half cocked in readiness, and presented through an aperture in our hut.
- Extract from : « The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba » by Walter Goodman