Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

have one's finger on the trigger

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.88 in modern English

Syllables
have one's fin-ger on the trig-ger
IPA
41
Scrabble Score
26
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To be prepared to kill someone else or as with a firearm.

Informal

Usage

Inflected Forms

has one's finger on the trigger (present, singular) having one's finger on the trigger (participle, present) had one's finger on the trigger (participle, past) had one's finger on the trigger (past)

Questions

What does have one's finger on the trigger mean?
To be prepared to kill someone else or as with a firearm.

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