Meaning of lone gunman | Babel Free

Definitions

An individual person who acts on his or her own initiative, without partners, especially one who has sole responsibility for doing something questionable, confidential, or iniquitous.

idiomatic

Examples

“He continues, "So when someone blows the whistle, the hospital has to start⟳ looking for a scapegoat. The hospital looks for the lone gunman—the individual, acting alone, acting counter to his training, who, through a gross act of incompetence . . . ."”

“Trial lawyers, always a colorful and eclectic bunch. . . . Most were lone gunmen too eccentric to keep⟳ much of a staff.”

“The Wilson family had been sorely conflicted because each member had gone off in his or her own⟳ direction, thinking that they were all lone gunmen.”

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