NOUN
- a person who is expected to perform a particular task but who is out of control and dangerous
How To Use loose cannon In A Sentence
- Totally loose cannon, more like it. The Sun
- Just how will the loose cannon react? The Sun
- Totally loose cannon, more like it. The Sun
- Our unloveable, big loose cannon - Ortland, Ortland!
- A preposterous seventeenth century opportunist, a loose cannon, an incorrigible hypocrite. BEHINDLINGS
- Just how will the loose cannon react? The Sun
- Owsley Stanley, one of the first and best known of the freelance makers of LSD, cursorily dismisses the Brotherhood, calling its members a “bunch of loose cannons on a ship of fools.” Book Review: Orange Sunshine by Nicholas Schou « A Progressive on the Prairie
- Cole is not so much a loose cannon as one with the shell stuck in the breach. Times, Sunday Times
- But the loose cannon ignored them and spent the night before his death enjoying a pint in the Markets area of Belfast. The Sun
- Just how will the loose cannon react? The Sun
