Adjective : a hair-trigger temper. From Dictionary.com.
He was a small man, but he had a hair-trigger temper. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
It's absolutely critical to be on hair-trigger alert. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2005] Reference
Stated the other way, how hair-trigger are both sides?. From Wordnik.com. [Briefing By Staff On India Trip] Reference
Thursday: Boobiac has a hair-trigger jealousy response. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: Tongue Digging] Reference
Ives stays because we need hair-trigger communications. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking Point] Reference
Keeping these two armies on hair-trigger alert does not help. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2002] Reference
STEPHEN KRAFT, IRAQ WAR VETERAN: I was a hair-trigger temper. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2007] Reference
How long can they continue at sort of this hair-trigger level?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2002] Reference
But he picked up Sulla instead, his hair-trigger temper let loose. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
It merely exploded him into action like a finger on a hair-trigger. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
Olive's pretense is the mainspring — or hair-trigger — of the plot. From Wordnik.com. ['Easy A' Aces Comedy (and Hawthorne)] Reference
The time has come really to take the two armies off hair-trigger alert. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2002] Reference
Americans have lived under the hair-trigger threat of mass destruction. From Wordnik.com. [President To American Society Of Newspaper Editors] Reference
Only the weight of the forefinger was needed to spring the hair-trigger. From Wordnik.com. [Sergeant York And His People] Reference
There are already some hair-trigger tensions over Iran's nuclear program. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2007] Reference
They have to be on hair-trigger alert under 9/11 circumstances like these. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2005] Reference
And it was a bit late now to tell him that the Hanyatti had a hair-trigger. From Wordnik.com. [The Satan Bug]
Perimeter ensures the ability to strike back, but it's no hair-trigger device. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
On the subject of pilot negligence, "the public has hair-trigger judgment," Bricker says. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Solo] Reference
It appears that Iraq's air defenses are on a hair-trigger here, if you will, at this time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2003] Reference
He did have a flaw or two, including a hair-trigger temper and a thin skin for bad reviews. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier Of Conscience] Reference
Paul Imrie, whose hair-trigger temper made him a terror in action, rose to the bait immediately. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Without Icing]
That was probably just as well, given the mess sergeant's hair-trigger temper and homicidal fury. From Wordnik.com. [Phule me twice]
All I know for certain was that girls saw something in that hair-trigger, perpetual little smile of his. From Wordnik.com. [Just Who Does Miller Think He Is?] Reference
There is no reason, he says, to have thousands of armed missiles on something close to hair-trigger alert. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
What a letter for a rich, successful woman to send: an unguarded expression of her insecurity and hair-trigger pride. From Wordnik.com. [First Lady Of Nashville] Reference
It's a pleasure to watch his hair-trigger timing, even if he lacks the manic zest John Wood gave the role on Broadway. From Wordnik.com. [Deathtrap] Reference
But he ceased this again, knowing that he must be of hair-trigger alertness to watch for the stamp of the white horse. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
Taking a polished gauge which hung at his watch-chain, he set the rear sight, and, cocking the piece, set the hair-trigger. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
The other was the hair-trigger reality on the ground in places like Al Fallujah and Tikrit, where little is yet accomplished. From Wordnik.com. [Our New Civil War] Reference
The ex-president is thick-skinned about tabloids but hair-trigger sensitive when it comes to his record, especially on terrorism. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Clinton Up Close] Reference
And hair-trigger attention spans may be less a function of PlayStation and more a function of kids who never have a moment's peace. From Wordnik.com. [THE GOOD ENOUGH MOTHER] Reference
"It was a favorite boast of his (the first Lord Norbury) that he began life with fifty pounds, and a pair of hair-trigger pistols.". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Relations between the two ethnic groups have long been hair-trigger tense, much like the tensions between the Serbs and Kosovar Albanians. From Wordnik.com. [In The Thick Of It] Reference
Relations between the two ethnic groups have long been hair-trigger tense, much like the antipathy between the Serbs and Kosovar Albanians. From Wordnik.com. [In The Thick Of It] Reference
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