English Dictionary

itchy trigger finger

名詞

慣用表現

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

日本語の意味

武器を撃ちたくなる、または不意に撃ってしまいがちな人の、引き金を引く（発射する）際に使う指

The officer's itchy trigger finger made everyone in the convoy nervous during the checkpoint.

検問で、あの警官がすぐにでも引き金を引きたがるような指のせいで、車列の全員が緊張した。

意味（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.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) 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.

itchy trigger fingers （ plural ）