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Idioms Thursday!

Wow touchy screen - it published before I typed anything!

I guess you can call that an "itchy trigger finger?"

(idiomatic) a tendency to act in haste or without consideration
Given any remote chance to gun down an effective spokesman for conservative economics as a secret fascist and torturer, even Nobel laureates can, we see, succumb to an itchy trigger finger.

The sign I prefer for this is in itself idiomatic - I don't know I have ever seen it on line. Forefingersclose to the face (like in "famous")then circling in alternating movements to palm in as the hands move away from the face. I'll try and get a video up when I sort out my website problems.

Anyway,I might also translate it as "without thinking".

If you find a video of the sign on line, let me know.
Thanks!

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