hair-trigger

hair-trigger englanniksi

1. A trigger that will set off a firearm when even a very small pressure is applied.

2. (quote-book)the hunter brings the sight of his rifle to bear; lightly and delicately his finger presses upon the hair-trigger.

3. (RQ:Twain Roughing It)

4. Unstable; in a situation that could be worsened by the slightest mistake.

5. Easily angered; having a short temper.

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6. (quote-book)

7. (quote-journal) (Sport)|date=21 October 2014|passage=In the 575 days since Pistorius|Oscar Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend (w), there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.