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Quick on the trigger.
Someone who is quick on the trigger acts or responds quickly.
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"People are a little quicker on the trigger than they used to be".
OOPS While board members grow ever quicker on the trigger to fire the chief, some shareholders have to be wondering about the quality of the boards themselves.
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He teams up with Terry Quinn, the quick-on-the-trigger white cop who fired the fatal shot, to uncover the complex reality behind that street incident.
In Gaza, some quick-on-the-trigger Palestinian policemen shot dead three protesters in an ominous clash with their own people.These protests may have engaged only a rowdy few, but they served notice that Muslim leaders face difficult choices.
Since he tends to stalk about, wielding a rifle -- in search of rabbits, he says at one point -- one assumes Karl is quick on the trigger.
Rose was quick on the trigger.
He suggested that Mr. Kerry was quick on the trigger with that particular charge.
Goldwater was uncommonly quick on the trigger, and, when he shot, he shot straight.
Still, some P.R. folks can be too quick on the trigger.
Quickest on the trigger were those Republicans harbouring presidential ambitions of their own.
"Reluctant, then aggressive; asleep at the switch, then quick on the trigger; indifferent, then obsessed, then indifferent again.
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