trigger-happy 的定义
Informal.
- 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 近义词
等同于 combative
更多trigger-happy例句
- So, as far as Mexican officials like Peña Nieto are concerned, the goal is to keep their countrymen here — and keep them happy.
- How do you celebrate when happy occasions are colored by loss and absence?
- He seemed by all appearances perfectly happy to let the Republicans control the state senate.
- The church was not happy with his views, and there was talk of excommunication.
- “We wish each and every one of you a happy and safe new year,” Giorgio said at the very end.
- And that was that if he and his wife were to ever live together again and be happy, the family were to be kept out of it.
- Cousin George's position is such a happy one, that conversation is to him a thing superfluous.
- Liszt gazed at "his Hans," as he calls him, with the fondest pride, and seemed perfectly happy over his arrival.
- M'Bongo and his whole court are now clothed, I am happy to say, at least to a certain extent.
- He was aware that his act by this time, had helped nobody, had made no one happy or satisfied—not even himself.