| 单词 | hair-trigger flower |
| 释义 | > as lemmashair-trigger flower b. attributive: see quots. Also hair-trigger flower, an Australian plant of the genus Stylidium, having a very sensitive column of stamens, which move from side to side on the slightest touch. ( Treasury Bot. 1866.) ΚΠ 1834 M. Edgeworth Let. 8 Mar. in Tour Connemara (1950) i. 4 I had been much amused by my father's account of Dick Martin—‘Hairtrigger Dick’. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 May 4/2 What is known in stage parlance as a hair-trigger audience—an audience, that is, of play-goers experienced enough to recognize every delicate bit of acting or skilful contrivance of stage-management. 1892 Fitzpatrick Secr. Service under Pitt xxi. 331 His temper was of as hair-trigger a character as the pistols which he carried. 1948 C. Day Lewis Poems 1943–7 60 The quick-set ears, the hair-trigger nerves. 1968 Observer 1 Sept. 8/7 A hair-trigger laugh. < as lemmas |
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