hair-trigger
Example Sentences
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“These things were a little bit on a hair trigger,” Green said.
Who knew guns with hair triggers could be so shockingly lethal in elevators?
From Los Angeles Times
“They can see this hair trigger mentality in the White House. Everybody is afraid.”
From Los Angeles Times
The loosening of limits has occurred as violent political rhetoric rises and the police in some places fear bloodshed among an armed populace on a hair trigger.
From New York Times
Rear buttons aside, the Scuf’s other big feature is its hair triggers, which have the quickest response of all the controllers tested here.
From The Verge
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