short fuse
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editshort fuse (plural short fuses)
- (idiomatic) The personality trait of being quick to anger.
- to be on a short fuse
- Be careful of what you say; he has a short fuse.
- 1993 November, Lynn Hirschberg, “Brat on a Hot Tin Roof”, in Vanity Fair[1]:
- In a few short years, she has sent two fiancés and various managers and flacks packing and earned a reputation as one of L.A.'s shortest fuses.
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