be on a short fuse

As you can guess, this is on a short fuse.

Maybe that was why he'd been on a short fuse this morning.

And no matter what she argued, her life was on a short fuse.

But today's just not my day; I'm on a short fuse.

And everyone, it seems, is on a short fuse.

And you don't fool with those because things are on a shorter fuse in Beirut.

Everyone seemed to be on a short fuse.

"Twenty years ago people would have described me as being on a short fuse, a type-A personality," he said.

Lately I've felt a bit more irritable, I'm on a short fuse and it doesn't take much to make me angry.

I could have hit the man, he was so damned aggravating at times, and I was on a short fuse anyway.

His voice was beginning to rise and it was obvious that his temper was on a short fuse.

Look, Rissa-you're on a short fuse.

So this was why the boss had been on a short fuse, Kate concluded, giving Serena a cool, appraising look as she lifted the interoffice phone.

"People are on the road longer, and everyone is on a short fuse," Satyendra Garg, the police official in charge of New Delhi traffic.

This might not be the time or place, Ted said abruptly, and it sounded as though his patience were on a short fuse, but Id like to remind you that you owe me a date.

Zeera was on a short fuse, and that put Svetz on a time limit If she was really as desperate as she'd seemed, then all she had to do was abandon her crew, turn on the Fast Forward device and ride to the present.