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hair trigger

[′her ‚trig·ər]
(ordnance)
The trigger of a firearm when it is delicately balanced so as to fire easily.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The "other side" knows there's no such thing as a "justifiable accident" and deep-pocket insurance companies generally only cover negligence, not the deliberate harm of another, known in civil law as a "willful tort." A lighter than "duty spec" trigger pull plays into their unmeritorious allegations of "hair trigger gun equals hair trigger personality, equals negligent discharge, equals culpability."
And a lighter trigger (hair trigger) would be more forgiving for any varying speeds in our trigger pulls.
Now, it sits atop a crumbling nuclear infrastructure, with poorly maintained reactors, vulnerable stockpiles and a dangerously degraded control system over missiles that remain, like our own, on hair trigger alert.
At the trial, Urfer said, "ELF is the hair trigger to start nuclear war.
A mature bladder has a built-in trap door that operates on a hair trigger. When the plant pumps some water out of the bladder, the door can snap inward if an insect larva or even a bit of debris brushes it.
It is therefore no exaggeration to say that the Times and the Post, which determine newspaper and television news coverage throughout the country, helped to squeeze the notorious "hair trigger" of the independent counsel (IC) statute.
The guns to the left of the body were a Smith & Wesson revolver with a customised handgrip and a Browning high-powered self-loading pistol, with a hair trigger.
It has placed on hair trigger alert the R-28 Sarmat missile equipped with 16 missiles that could penetrate any missile shield on this planet.
The Raiju produced by Razer appears to be similar to Playstation's DualShock 4 and has two extra bumpers, two extra detachable triggers, trigger-stop switches and hair trigger mode for faster trigger responses.
An unstable person with a hot temper was said to have a "hair trigger," and someone who behaved rashly was "goin' off half-cocked." Being told to "hold your fire" referred not just to refraining from shooting, but to speaking out of turn, interrupting others, or executing any kinds of actions not even remotely connected with shooting.