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Meanings of short fuse in English

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Usage of short fuse in English
1
She had a short fuse as far as her family was concerned.
Silence of the grave
2
Grief touched the short fuse to his cigarette and threw the stick.
A Son of the Sun
3
He pressed it to the short fuse and made to back away.
Success to the Brave
4
And he had a brutally short fuse and a bent toward cruelty.
Secret Sanction
5
This ancient publisher and poet with a great mind and a short fuse.
86'd: a novel
6
He had a short fuse and everybody has a breaking point.
The Guardian
7
It was all too much for him and his short fuse to bear.
The Yankee Years
8
On the contrary, they acted like an accelerant on his already short fuse.
Priest
9
She's a good kid, a little emotional, and she has a short fuse.
Solomon's oak: a novel
10
I had the short fuse, she had the long one.
The brush-off: a hair-raising mystery
11
Raoul could lob it here on a short fuse and take them all out.
Map of bones
12
No danger from them unless there was a short fuse.
My Year of the War / Including an Account of Experiences with th...
13
I'm wondering what's going on for your husband that he has a short fuse.
News.com.au
14
My short fuse, let me show it to you.
Walking dead
15
He darted back, where lay his bombs and the short fuse laid to the cannon.
As It Was in the Beginning
16
Finally the short fuse of his patience burned out.
The Name of the Wind
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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