flag-happy
adjEtymology
From flag + happy.
Definitions
Overly inclined to rule that an infraction has occurred.
- I remain convinced of my capacity to harangue flag-happy officials (both when they are correct and when they've just cocked up another costly decision), to the point where they might occasionally favour the Arsenal just for a quiet life!
- If any host nation has ever earned a handful of incompetent decisions from nervous and flag-happy officials, it was this one.
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