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trigger-happy
[ trig-er-hap-ee ]
adjective
- ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences:
a trigger-happy hunter.
- heedless and foolhardy in matters of great importance and recklessly advocating action that can result in war:
Some called him a trigger-happy candidate.
- eager to point out the mistakes or shortcomings of others; aggressively or wantonly critical:
He's a trigger-happy editor with a nervous blue pencil.
trigger-happy
adjective
- tending to resort to the use of firearms or violence irresponsibly
- tending to act rashly or without due consideration
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of trigger-happy1
Idioms and Phrases
Inclined to act violently at the slightest provocation, as in They feared that the President was trigger happy and would send in troops at the drop of a hat . This expression alludes to being too eager to fire a gun. [c. 1940]Example Sentences
“I saw my boy brought into this world and, horribly, I saw him taken out of this world by a trigger-happy cop,†Ramirez’s mother, Renee Villalobos, said in the same statement.
Together, they travel a lawless America plagued by criminals, fanatics, killer mutants and trigger-happy survivors.
Few owners are trigger-happy in the first two months and by April and May it's usually too late.
Faced with the tightest job market in decades, many have become less trigger-happy with layoffs, even in the face of a cooling economy.
He remained steadfastly Freddy, the opposite of the cynical, traumatized, volatile, trigger-happy TV cop show stereotype.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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