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Definition of hair trigger in English: hair triggernoun 1A trigger of a firearm set for release at the slightest pressure. （枪的）微力扳机，小扣力扳机 Example sentencesExamples - You'd be like a coiled spring with a hair trigger.
- The man operated on a hair trigger and there was little doubt the man went around looking for opportunity to vent the rage that lay beneath the surface.
- And her colleague wasn't supposed to fire the hair trigger shotgun that blew the woman away.
- If you refuse to take it seriously in the first place, it removes one of our key levers of international influence and places the country on a hair trigger.
- Their new idea was that the feedback mechanism had a hair trigger set off by ocean currents.
- And as she mentioned, the Capitol Police is on a hair trigger.
- I couldn't help thinking that one of these days, that hair trigger might come in handy.
- It had a hair trigger, and the gun went off, still pointing toward the ceiling.
- It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger.
- They have been desperate to avoid setting off an array of landmines with hair triggers.
- Being drunk always made his emotions on a hair trigger and his control over them lax.
- The legal climate is on a hair trigger.
- No sooner had I walked out of the kitchen where the precariously balanced basket was leaning against a hair trigger than SNAP!
- One squeeze of the hair trigger and Zack would be gone.
- That's right, it's often called the cycle of violence in which children who are maltreated, later grow up to maltreat others, or have a hair trigger propensity to get engaged in assault themselves.
- Others will arm a hair trigger, seeking to use the most readily available information, even if scant.
- And there's nothing more dangerous than a nervous superpower with its finger on the hair trigger.
- 1.1as modifier Denoting something that is quickly and easily activated or provoked.
his hair-trigger temperament 一触即发的火爆脾气。 Example sentencesExamples - E-mail's stripped-down, free-form nature sets off workers' hair-trigger responses and lends itself to venting rude behavior, much as road rage overtakes people in the bubble of their cars.
- He was an intense little man with a hair-trigger temper, but he was quite serious about the costumes he built and the way he performed in them.
- This is a post about the hair-trigger temper of a populace under the twin pressures of occupation and random horrible violence.
- He has also carved a niche as the great diplomat in a volatile, hair-trigger band that has had as many internal conflicts as hit records.
- He has done good job this season of playing through the pain of a nagging elbow injury, finishing blocks and controlling his hair-trigger temper.
Definition of hair trigger in US English: hair triggernounˈhe(ə)r ˈˌtriɡər 1A trigger of a firearm set for release at the slightest pressure. （枪的）微力扳机，小扣力扳机 Example sentencesExamples - No sooner had I walked out of the kitchen where the precariously balanced basket was leaning against a hair trigger than SNAP!
- The legal climate is on a hair trigger.
- Others will arm a hair trigger, seeking to use the most readily available information, even if scant.
- One squeeze of the hair trigger and Zack would be gone.
- Being drunk always made his emotions on a hair trigger and his control over them lax.
- The man operated on a hair trigger and there was little doubt the man went around looking for opportunity to vent the rage that lay beneath the surface.
- It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger.
- Their new idea was that the feedback mechanism had a hair trigger set off by ocean currents.
- And as she mentioned, the Capitol Police is on a hair trigger.
- And her colleague wasn't supposed to fire the hair trigger shotgun that blew the woman away.
- I couldn't help thinking that one of these days, that hair trigger might come in handy.
- It had a hair trigger, and the gun went off, still pointing toward the ceiling.
- You'd be like a coiled spring with a hair trigger.
- And there's nothing more dangerous than a nervous superpower with its finger on the hair trigger.
- That's right, it's often called the cycle of violence in which children who are maltreated, later grow up to maltreat others, or have a hair trigger propensity to get engaged in assault themselves.
- If you refuse to take it seriously in the first place, it removes one of our key levers of international influence and places the country on a hair trigger.
- They have been desperate to avoid setting off an array of landmines with hair triggers.
- 1.1as modifier hair-trigger Liable to change suddenly and violently.
〈喻〉一触即发的，容易触发的 一触即发的火爆脾气。 Example sentencesExamples - He has done good job this season of playing through the pain of a nagging elbow injury, finishing blocks and controlling his hair-trigger temper.
- E-mail's stripped-down, free-form nature sets off workers' hair-trigger responses and lends itself to venting rude behavior, much as road rage overtakes people in the bubble of their cars.
- This is a post about the hair-trigger temper of a populace under the twin pressures of occupation and random horrible violence.
- He has also carved a niche as the great diplomat in a volatile, hair-trigger band that has had as many internal conflicts as hit records.
- He was an intense little man with a hair-trigger temper, but he was quite serious about the costumes he built and the way he performed in them.
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