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
Sentiment around the sector remains on a hair trigger, and it won’t take much to knock it back down, like a fictional Substack post on Monday that sent the software ETF down 4.8%.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
In theory, the hair trigger gets shots off faster when playing shooters, and the rear paddles allow you to jump, crouch, reload, etc., without taking your thumb off the right stick for aiming.
From The Verge • May 25, 2022
Dozens more are noted, most of them witnesses to or victims of the rage and wrath of Musk, a hair trigger of an executive who’s quick to fire people whether they deserve it or not.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 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
