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Newguest Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Half-cocked

Hi

U2 was supposed to make a video of a song and before they recorded it Bono said: I had a character in mind, who was just a little half-cocked, a kind of uber-Bono.

--- What does "half-cocked" here mean?
  

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Hi, Generally speaking, incompletely prepared, although the exact meaning about the character in your sentence is not colmpletely clear to me. I bieve the image is from an old-fashioned revolver, where you have to pull the hammer back with your thumb in order to fire. You pull it back a little, to the first position.

— Clive

  • Hi, Generally speaking, incompletely prepared, although the exact meaning about the character in your sentence is not colmpletely clear to me.
  • I bieve the image is from an old-fashioned revolver, where you have to pull the hammer back with your thumb in order to fire.
  • You pull it back a little, to the first position.
  • It's half-cocked.
  • You pull it back all the way, to the 'ready' position.
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Hi,

Generally speaking, incompletely prepared, although the exact meaning about the character in your sentence is not colmpletely clear to me.

I bieve the image is from an old-fashioned revolver, where you have to pull the hammer back with your thumb in order to fire.

You pull it back a little, to the first position. It's half-cocked.

You pull it back
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Hi Clive!

So maybe that sentence means: I wanted to play a certain character in this video, he was supposed to be a Super-Bono, but I think my idea lacked mature consideration/it wasn't prepared well enough (was half-cocked).

Agree?
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