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  • The trigger-happy insanity shown in the second segment is proven by the first to have come from somewhere - it isn't an intrinsic element of manhood.
  • He does not want to work for trigger-happy owners. The Sun
  • Personally, I'd rather the police keep to tormenting criminals than getting trigger-happy with the innocent. p.s. Please don't tell me that "l'eau" makes the preceding word in the title redundant - nay, superfluous and altogether unwanted: a pariah in the great thesaurus of life; an article definitely unwanted. Buggerthat Diary Entry
  • By conflating the four episodes into two film-length pieces, the BBC runs the risk of tempting trigger-happy viewers to channel-hop, which would be a genuine shame.
  • The combination of a packed schedule and trigger-happy owners has made it a month of misery for under-fire bosses. The Sun
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  • Peter Sellers’ comic dexterity is on display in three decidedly different roles, and George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden are also drop-dead funny in caricatures of trigger-happy military types. Eric’s Top 10 Movies You Can Watch Over and Over Again » Scene-Stealers
  • Johnson saw the risk posed by trigger-happy reporters and presidents mistaking passion for facts while dispatching others to march in enemy crosshairs.
  • Many have online accounts, which tend to appeal to trigger-happy investors.
  • (OSAKA, Japan) - In the trigger-happy post-9/11 world, the favoured way to instigate a war is to demand that the designated "evildoer" prove a negative. Salem-News.com
  • Ethics cannot be left to the discretion of anyone who is frivolous or trigger-happy.
  • At first it was the gangs they feared, then it was trigger-happy cops.
  • By conflating the four episodes into two film-length pieces, the BBC runs the risk of tempting trigger-happy viewers to channel-hop, which would be a genuine shame.
  • The greater emphasis on stealth may not find favor with trigger-happy players, and the inability to fire whilst prone and in the vicinity of an object is rather irritating.
  • Too many of us live outside Lesotho, which is normal, after so many years of a trigger-happy government.
  • While it's a little talkier and more reliant on suspense and mystery than trigger-happy American action shows, it should please any fan of cloak-and-dagger antics.
  • Arguably, however, the cops should be more trigger-happy than they are.
  • Some of them are a bit trigger-happy — they'll shoot at anything that moves.
  • Toe-sucker, Dick Morris tells a bold-faced, fabricated lie on TV, and recants it two days later — but not before drugster Lintball has run with it and told his brainwashed, trigger-happy audience the lie. Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 21, 2010
  • I'm getting trigger-happy with the remote control. The Sun
  • Andrea Seppi, a creative photographer from Germany, combines a trigger-happy attitude with propensity for perfection.
  • The investigator said the killings were the result of poor procedure by trigger-happy police rather than premeditated murder.
  • Marines kicking down doors and murdering men, women and children in their pyjamas: nothing could better reinforce the caricature of trigger-happy superpowerdom on the rampage.
  • It exceeded the 4 x 6 inches allowed by the jail, so I was pleasantly surprised that it was not rejected by the trigger-happy mailroom.
  • 'You intend, then,' Cloud demanded furiously, 'to let this girl put her naked hands and teeth up against four trigger-happy gunnies with DeLameters?' Masters Of The Vortex
  • Assam is open to foreigners but some areas are riddled with bandits, while the ‘no man's land’ between unneighbourly India and Bangladesh is patrolled by bored but trigger-happy armies.
  • But this has also been the season of trigger-happy owners and chairmen. Times, Sunday Times
  • Europeans are so much more civilised than the trigger-happy cowboys across the pond.
  • Even Winston Churchill, then the minister responsible, was shocked by the action of some trigger-happy pilots and vengeful ground troops.
  • It's a worrying statistic and maybe a trigger-happy situation but, by the same token, you need to be seen to be going forward.
  • And the military got trigger-happy and fired on them.
  • Although one day a week playing military games is nothing like being a bush fighter, it did make it easier to deal with trigger-happy teenage sentries in Uganda and Somalia and Sudan.
  • I must say I agree with the $20,000 fine some trigger-happy moron got for killing a condor - though I would have sent the big hero to jail as well.
  • Regan gasped, surprised, not expecting such a fierce attack from his cousin, though she was known to be violent and trigger-happy.
  • MPs enjoy quaint privileges-the finance ministry sells confiscated weapons costing lakhs of rupees to trigger-happy MPs at a fraction of the cost.
  • Then there are the trigger-happy youths with airguns, who bored with shooting at cardboard targets, can't resist taking pot shots at birds, or anything else that moves, even cats.
  • ‘It was a joke I was having with the boys,’ the trigger-happy star explained, rejecting reports that the firearm had been real.

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