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Casual Lex: An Informal Assemblage of Why We Say What We Say
HALF-COCKED. As late as the time of the American Revolution, the sportsmen of
England shot game with heavy and clumsy muskets. Their weapons had to be
loaded slowly by hand, for they wouldn't fire until cocked. As a safety measure, ...
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Hand Guns, Concealed Carry, Gun Laws, Other Concerns, and ...
The burning gases send the projectile down the barrel and also cause the recoil
that you feel. on SAo revolvers, you can manually pull the hammer back to a “half
-cocked” position. That allows you to move the cylinder that contains the bullets.
Hammond Satterfield,
2013
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
14th August 2000 ▻ go off at half-cock generally, to start without being ready; in
sex, to ejaculate prematurely or without being fully erect uk, 1904 A variation of
half-cocked. half-COCk adjective ill-considered; inferior uk • [T)he half-cock ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor,
2006
... botched gigs, low-end drug deals and, ultimately, Unai's unraveling. Buoyed by
the same underground cachet that ultimately weighs down Half-Cocked, but
bolstered by stronger performances, more sympathetic leads and a feeling that ...
(SOUNDTRACK Half-Cocked MatadoT) It's probably not wise to expect too much
from soundtracks. One or two good songs, maybe, and the rest a repository for
outtakes, obscurities, and record label favors, with the artists figuring, "It's a ...
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The Truth About Firearms and Concealed Carry
On many single-action semiautomatic pistols, there is also a hammer position
known as half-cocked. Squeezing the trigger will not fire the gun when it is in the
half-cocked position, and neither will dropping the gun in this state cause an ...
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What's the Number for 911?: America's Wackiest 911 Calls
GOING. OFF. HALF-COCKED. Twenty-one-year-old Darwin Coates was in a
cocky mood when he took his .22-caliber pistol and shoved it into the waistband
of his pants. He was feeling less cocky fliterally) when the gun fired and shot him
in ...
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
To go off half-cocked (APP 168; EAP 193; MP 281) 1943 "But don't let's go off at
half cock." (p. 124) Charteris, Leslie. The Saint on Guard. 1943. Garden City,
N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1944. 1949 "You'll half learn something,
and ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder,
2005
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American & British 410 Shotguns
Both types have three positions: cocked, half-cocked, and fired. The non-
rebounding hammer's firing pin remained indented in the cap of the cartridge,
blocking the opening of the breech. The advantage of Stanton's rebounding
hammers ...
"In film school, they tell you to write what you know," says Suki Hawley, who with
Michael Galinsky has made the film Half-Cocked. It tells the story of five young
people, played by Jon Cooke from the band Crain, Cynthia Nelson from Ruby
Falls ...
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Falling Skies Deserves Some Credit For This One Super-Effective …
As usual, when one of Tom's kids goes off half-cocked it turned out to be a good thing—Hal goes off with Maggie, chasing that girl and her ... «io9, 7월 15»
The First All-Star Celebrity Softball Game, When John Cassavettes …
The half-cocked rules of the game allowed for free substitution, which meant if James Garner pitched his way into trouble, his team could send ... «VICE, 7월 15»
Dick joke politics
... drunk and sex-crazed Larson nearly starts an international incident when the foreign minister of India misinterprets the term “half-cocked. «Al Jazeera America, 7월 15»
A Lesson on Government Intervention in the Free Market
After several weeks of surging volatility and plunging stocks, the Chinese government introduced these half-cocked measures in a desperate ... «Investment U, 7월 15»
Inconvenient facts vs. conventional wisdom
His history of going off half-cocked didn't stop him this time either. Dylann Roof had no trouble getting his hands on a gun, but it wasn't because ... «TBO.com, 7월 15»
Keith Olbermann Waves Goodbye—Again
And he tends to go off half-cocked. For instance: On a show this week, he defended ESPN's report about the amputated finger of Jason ... «New York Observer, 7월 15»
Filmmaker James Balsamo Pays Tribute to Irwin Keyes
Rod and Harry are going in half-cocked and head-to-head against a drug cartel when they find themselves fending off a crazed scientist's ... «Dread Central, 7월 15»
FINALLY FINISHED:
Why someone would wait until he was in the twilight of his life to do so wasn't made clear in most cases, but half-cocked fables developed to ... «EBONY.com, 7월 15»
Overwatch Will Have an FOV Slider, With Consideration to PC Gamers
Blizzard Entertainment will not be going in half-cocked with Overwatch, their first foray into the world of first-person shooters. The competitive ... «Gameranx, 7월 15»
Osborne's class spite wrapped in spin will feed a backlash
... who will be paying the continuing cost of the bankers' crash and David Cameron and Osborne's half-cocked deficit-reduction programme. «The Guardian, 7월 15»