itchy trigger finger

名词 n.

中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.

The trigger finger of a person eager to fire their weapon or likely to do so unexpectedly.

— As jittery as everyone was, there were bound to be some itchy trigger fingers, American and Kuwaiti.
The metaphorical trigger finger of a person with a tendency or readiness to act in haste or without consideration; a tendency to so act. idiomatic

— Given any remote chance to gun down an effective spokesman for conservative economics as a secret fascist and torturer, even Nobel laureates can, we see, succumb to an itchy trigger finger.

itchy trigger fingers plural