trigger-happy

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A victim of government-sanctioned culling, trigger-happy farmers and rising road traffic, by 2002 the Iberian lynx was on the verge of extinction, with just 94 cats left in their natural habitat.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Don’t get trigger-happy and sell because of headlines.

From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025

Vance was also, in effect, portraying the American military personnel who sank the boats as trigger-happy, prone to mistake a fishing boat for a drug vessel and feeling guiltless about doing so.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2025

Paranoid or jealous people who want to believe the rest of the world is out to get them tend to be trigger-happy.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2023

The man in charge saw Gilgamesh on the alarm screens and got trigger-happy.

From The Lost Kafoozalum by Ashwell, Pauline