itchy trigger finger
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.26 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The trigger finger of a person eager to fire their weapon or likely to do so unexpectedly.
noun
The metaphorical trigger finger of a person with a tendency or readiness to act in haste or without consideration; a tendency to so act.
Example Sentences
- "As jittery as everyone was, there were bound to be some itchy trigger fingers, American and Kuwaiti."
- "Travel at night was forbidden and frankly, none of us seemed upset about this as we all knew how the U.S. Army troops had itchy trigger fingers."
- "He, and many others who had “itchy trigger fingers” and who wanted America to get in bed with war against communist Cuba and the Soviet Union, felt betrayed because JFK did not provide direct air power or support, leaving the right-winged exiles to be crushed by the Cuban army."
- "As the police made their way to the upper levels, they did so with guns drawn and itchy trigger fingers at the ready."
- "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."
- "They all have an itchy trigger finger when it comes to advertising."