释义 |
trigger-happytrigger-ˌhappy (also ˈtrigger-ˌready) adjective informal - A debate even begins about whether the army is not getting a little trigger-happy in its nervous and no doubt terrified tension.
- After all, half-an-hour away in any direction there is a trigger-happy racist waiting for his big day.
- It ensured that no trigger-happy missile controller would fail to observe the safety precautions and attempt a little target practice.
- The investigator said the killings were the result of poor procedure by trigger-happy police rather than premeditated murder.
- Whooper swans are molested by irresponsible trigger-happy parties but here, at Bolam, they visit in peace.
someone who is trigger-happy is much too willing to use weapons, especially guns: a trigger-happy cop |