loose cannon

If you’re too much of a loose cannon, others can either just take you out or decide never to enter negotiations with you in the first place.

Oh, and the company had a loose cannon liability in the driver’s seat in Elon Musk.

We tend to overestimate how much a politician like that can drag down their national party, but Greene’s lack of remorse and candor reinforces how much of a loose cannon she could be moving forward.

As of Thursday night, the brothers remained on the loose, last seen in northern France.

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The lack of a cannon is a particular problem, as the F-35 is being counted on to help out infantrymen under fire.

Biden is, of course, famous for being a bit loose in his public remarks.

He was pinned to the cement for his refusal to go along with an arrest for selling loose cigarettes.

Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.

She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.

Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.

"I call you," the policeman said, and stripping the saddle and bridle from his sweaty horse, turned him loose to graze.

For good or ill, the torrent of rebellion was suffered to break loose, and it soon engulfed a continent.