Examples of 'hair-trigger' in a sentence
Meaning of "hair-trigger"
Hair-trigger - (noun) a mechanism that responds extremely quickly or sensitively to a trigger or stimulus, often used in reference to guns
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- A trigger that will set off a firearm when even a very small pressure is applied.
- Unstable; in a situation that could be worsened by the slightest mistake.
- Easily angered; having a short temper.
How to use "hair-trigger" in a sentence
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This creates a hair-trigger security environment.
He would have been on an emotional hair-trigger.
Being on hair-trigger alert to order the destruction.
Thousands of nuclear weapons remain on hair-trigger alert.
This has created a hair-trigger security environment.
Schultz is also a vicious gangster with a hair-trigger temper.
He was on a hair-trigger the rest of the day.
She had a cuteness that set off my hair-trigger response.
The necessity of lowering hair-trigger alert levels of arsenals in the context of a future treaty.
There is no justification for maintaining thousands of weapons on hair-trigger alert.
No players more understandably hair-trigger defensive than those of curling.
Bragging about extrajudicial assassination when the world is on a hair-trigger is insane.
He was known for having a hair-trigger temper and a penchant for fighting.
I would forgotten all about this spare gun of mine having a hair-trigger.
Greeley 's got a hair-trigger temper and an inoperable brain tumor driving him schizo.
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Defense was inevitably more stabilizing than relying on hair-trigger offense, we argued.
Greeley 's got a hair-trigger temper and an inoperable brain tumour driving him schizo.
The gun was being passed from one person to another and it had a hair-trigger.
The boy had a hair-trigger temper that frequently got him into trouble.
Floyd just got through telling me that you are the one with the hair-trigger temper.
Impulsive aggression is defined as a hair-trigger aggressive response to provocation with loss of behavioral control.
Mike Brannan is now giving an exhibition of hair-trigger balancing.
This will create a hair-trigger security environment in a region where tensions already run high.
States with smaller arsenals should assume postures eschewing hair-trigger alert while still assuring survivability.
It has been set on hair-trigger by the incessant propaganda that Americans call news.
Head of the class on ODM; also an insufferable smartass with a hair-trigger temper.
But we agreed to take our the hair-trigger alert system . intercontinental ballistic missiles off.
Let me warn you that your friend Donovan … is a hotheaded ape with a hair-trigger temper.
Damage to the temporal lobe can result in hair-trigger violent reactions and increased aggressive responses.
The hair-trigger policy has its roots in the Cold War.
As a fellow owner of a hair-trigger I salute you.
But Goldilocks had a Remington semiautomatic with a scope and a hair-trigger.
He 's got a hair-trigger temper all of a sudden.
We called him Mad Max because of his hair-trigger temper.
There is a hair-trigger anti-tampering device.
That would mean the troubled Caucasus would be on a hair-trigger to detonate World War III.
You are a hair-trigger is what you are.
Knew his mate had a hair-trigger.
By drunkenness, hair-trigger violence, and a total lack of performance.
It takes ice-cold nerve and hair-trigger timing.
It has a hair-trigger release and a delayed-action circuit.
A pituitary abnormal on a hair-trigger to self-destruct.
In such a hair-trigger situation, the very notion of " political " options becomes increasingly incredible.
Someone was on a hair-trigger today.
Many warheads are deployed on land-based missile systems, bombers and submarines in a hair-trigger situation.
Stand at hair-trigger readiness.
Bauer 's already shot two marines, so this is a hair-trigger situation.
It was on hair-trigger alert.
I do not know if you have noticed, she 's got a hair-trigger temper.
Greeley's got a hair-trigger temper… and an inoperable brain tumour driving him schizo.
