shot from the hip

These tended to be wide-ranging and opinionated; he shot from the hip.

Instead of a coordinated response, confusion and conflicting proscriptions reigned, abetted by an American president who took too long to admit the obvious, shot from the hip and seemed to view the pandemic as a personal foe to vanquish using blustery, nonsensical pronouncements.

In the years when I drank, and shot from the hip, I rarely got into the kind of trouble I could get into today.

“I just shot from the hip on that and probably should have been more wary,” Mr. Blaguski said in a recent interview.

I kept an instinctive approach throughout and often shot from the hip.