at half cock

at half cock (做某事)准备不充分地：Their corporation made a bad bargain in the negotiation because they entered it at half cock.他们公司在谈判中谈赔了，因为他们准备不充分就进入谈判。

• lock-away
• morning drive
• Meissner effect
• Martinmases
• Faraday constant
• minimal equation
• pseudolanguages
• stake out
• Neumann problem
• mihrabs
• South Dakotan
• Saint George's Day
• readout station
• Vigo
• sixteener
• doting
• betook
• at owner's rick
• psychs
• slavocracy
• banian
• burn （〈北美〉 亦作lay） rubber
• skinless
• proclaim
• hoe in
• Paleozoic
• take sth at the flood
• open the door to
• grummer
• gaufrages
• intensity of pressure
• recto
• crewmates
• blackflies
• most important relations of tort law
• Bradstreet,Simon
• Conidae
• Balfour, Arthur James
• bookkeeper
• Plough Monday
• refuter
• alightings
• perishability
• ponter
• sarcoadenomas
• at right angles（或a right angle）
• middy
• Vodafone
• object lens
• sit under
• moon-blind
• sinecureship
• cannie
• suppletive
• myelosarcoma
• antimony orange
• dip pole
• goblets
• rks
• black-silk barge
• Sagartiidae
• sideral
• holophrases
• take power
• calciovolborthite
• antistrophic
• main sea
• communion of saints
• bongraces
• hydrochloric acid
• intendancies
• Coca-colonising
• (in) black and white
• amphidetic
• great pox
• teflons
• a tale of a tub
• intake manifold
• heliochromes
• termers
• carbon star
• IBD
• filmize
• dowries
• cortisones
• chalklike
• postdiluvian
• so… that
• Brahmanism
• operational analysis
• matildite
• urbanize
• Lt Col.
• find your feet
• thiobacilli
• scariness
• jack-in-the-pulpit
• abbot of abbots
• snapping turtles
• flatboats