English-French translations for trigger-happy

• avoir la gâchette facile
  Israël et la Palestine ne trouveront jamais la paix et la tranquillité s'ils persistent à avoir la gâchette facile. Israel and Palestine will never find peace and tranquillity if they carry on being trigger-happy.
• folle de la gâchette
• fou de la gâchette
• gâchette facile
  Israël et la Palestine ne trouveront jamais la paix et la tranquillité s'ils persistent à avoir la gâchette facile. Israel and Palestine will never find peace and tranquillity if they carry on being trigger-happy.
• malade de la gâchette

Definition of trigger-happy

• Having a tendency or desire to shoot a firearm irresponsibly before adequately identifying the target
• Inclined to behave recklessly or violently at the slightest provocation

Examples

• The bystanders were indiscriminately gunned down by trigger-happy gang members
• Be careful when you work near him; hes trigger-happy with that chain-saw.
• He was so trigger-happy that he wheeled and punched me when I brushed by him in the hall.

Related words

• trigger
• outrigger
• triggering
• triggerfish
• hair-trigger
• triggerable
• level-triggered
• edge-triggered
• trigger warning