to be on a short fuse

A triangle is a specialization of a polygon to one with exactly three sides.

Eritrean historical consciousness has long been characterized by mourning, loss and grievance, and more broadly it is possible to understand history in the Horn from the perspective of emotional response and remembrance, most obviously manifest in the martyrology—a kind of mortocracy—which underpins the Eritrean state in its modern form.

At th'upper end there ſate, yclad in red / Downe to the ground, a comely perſonage […]