itchy trigger finger

Definitions

1. 1

   The trigger finger of a person eager to fire their weapon or likely to do so unexpectedly.

   • 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.
2. 2

   The metaphorical trigger finger of a person with a tendency or readiness to act in haste…

   The metaphorical trigger finger of a person with a tendency or readiness to act in haste or without consideration; a tendency to so act.

   • 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.
   • Under these kinds of circumstances, players with significant exposure, tight stops, and itchy trigger fingers can end up overreacting to what is essentially noise.

The neighborhood

• neighborquick on the draw
• neighborquick-tempered
• neighbortrigger-happy