trigger-happy

That is not the sort of performance to make a boss feel secure in his job, especially in this era of trigger-happy boards.

Ronald Reagan devoted a great deal of energy to persuading people that he was not a trigger-happy ideologue.

It's a good thing that the most powerful countries on this Earth are not trigger-happy, otherwise this would be a bad place.

But Canadians do not like their police to be trigger-happy, even with "non-lethal" weaponry.

Bavelier said these results did not show that the action game players are trigger-happy and less accurate.

We must hasten to say that trigger-happy members of the police must not think that this is a licence to kill.

Thursday, the trigger-happy brigade were back in control, once again shoving the euro higher for no serious reason.

The reality is that weak Western economies and trigger-happy electorates stand to muss all that up.

Our government is trigger-happy. It took over the power by violence so it never hesitates to suppress people' uprising by violence.

Hakimullah Mehsud, thought to be 28, (and very much alive, say people who spoke to him this week) is known as a trigger-happy thug.

Turkish men are reputed masters of coitus interruptus, while more trigger-happy British males opt for vasectomies in record numbers.

I hope one day they will rise up to those western gun touting, chest thumping and trigger happy white trash.

They are the police force that keeps the immune system from becoming trigger-happy.

Critics say that, seeking promotion and fearing no prosecution, the poorly paid force has become trigger-happy.

But nobody from Congo's equally trigger-happy pro-government forces is in the dock.

The new security forces are certainly , trigger-happy. Some are proving undisciplined.

adj. Terrified Buddhists have fled insurgent zones or joined trigger-happy militias.

They, as much as trigger-happy soldiers, must bear some responsibility for the lives lost.

Some called him a trigger-happy candidate.

nothing could better reinforce the caricature of trigger-happy superpowerdom on the rampage.

Or hearing a certain song might trigger happy feelings.

They react extremely fast to events around them, but they are not trigger happy.

I didn't want to be trigger happy, and thought the suit might go away quickly.

Poor or trigger-happy fighters are sometimes "retired" , either sent home or given a menial task, such as sweeping floors.

Patience has its virtues, and chairmen can be trigger-happy, but it is hardly compulsory;