HAIR TRIGGER • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Hair trigger

... was resting on a hair trigger, and, even in the tenseness of the moment, Hi Lang found himself keenly interested in what he saw—the Overland ...

— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert • Jessie Graham Flower

... the thing among gentlemen who do not wish to be considered as attempting to attract notice. In cases where the gentleman with whom you are holding a joint debate already has the drop, his navy six having a hair trigger, and he being bound to shoot, anyway, this style of discussion is allowable, though apt to cause a coldness to spring up. As regards the number of guns which it is admissible to wear, great latitude is allowed, from one up to four being ...

— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn