hair-trigger
Example Sentences
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Years of mismanagement and ill-fated transfers have left Spurs with a jumbled squad and a hair trigger for firing coaches.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
Investors appear to have been on hair trigger.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
A review from The LA Times says Higgins’ book “takes the shine off” Musk, showing him to be “a hair trigger of an executive who’s quick to fire people whether they deserve it or not.”
From The Verge • Aug. 5, 2021
His letters to the editor, fired on a hair trigger, left a trail of gun smoke.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2021
His sense of right and wrong had been mounted on a hair trigger.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
