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short fuses
n. (short fuse English)
Usage examples of "short fuses".
He lit the short fuses of four of the M-80s and tossed them into the drain, even as the shadows were reaching out.
By Grief's side lay several bundles of dynamite sticks, well-lashed together and with extremely short fuses.
KV: Yeah, but the audience isn't there, because people are very literal-minded and they have very short fuses about this particular subject.
When other trees came down, everyone had seen that they had short fuses.