short fuse
a quick temper: A person with a short fuse has to be handled diplomatically.
Origin of short fuse
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How to use short fuse in a sentence
There is a short fuse and a certain explosion at the end of this piece of treachery.
He had a short fuse and would sometimes berate her when she spoke too much to Gluck.
With everyone on such a short fuse, no Obama Sunday talk marathon is going to calm anyone down.
I offered to show them how to throw a smoke bomb, and they gave me one with an extra short fuse.
The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front | Victor AppletonBesides the alarm, theres a little surprise on a short fuse.
The Knights of Arthur | Frederik Pohl
Don't treat business as though it were a lighted fire-cracker with a short fuse.
The next moment Dan had held the end of the short fuse he had provided to the candle, and a slight spluttering began.
The Black Tor | George Manville FennI used only a third of a stick—you know, short fuse, with the end split so as to hold the head of a safety match.
The Red One | Jack London
British Dictionary definitions for short fuse
informal a quick temper
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