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hair-trigger

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hair-trig·ger (hârtrgr)
adj.
Responding to the slightest provocation or stimulation: a hair-trigger temper; a hair-trigger reaction.
hair-trigger - Its underlying meaning is something that may be triggered with the pressure of something as slight as a hair.
See also related terms for slight.
Translations
hair-trigger [ˈhɛəˌtrɪgəʳ] ADJ (fig) [temper, reaction] → explosivo
see also hair B
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"My nerves are on a hair-trigger these days," Martin apologized.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
The inmates were asleep, but it was a sleep that was set on a hair-trigger, on account of the exciting episode of the night.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humors, would sit in an arm-chair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
 
 
 
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