And actually going through one may touch off another fit.

We had stayed in touch off and on over the years.

"If we started shooting at each other here, it could even touch off a war back home."

They would simply have to touch off the alarm and move quickly.

The action is certain to touch off a legal battle.

The very idea of journalism touched off something in him.

In fact, any such effort is likely to touch off a big political storm.

"Have we any information on what touched off this incident?"

The news touched off a drop of nearly 14 percent in the company's stock.

What the first attack hadn't done to touch off a national panic, the second did.

Perhaps for that very reason, it has touched off a huge battle in Washington.

He touched off another round, trying to lay it on top of the first.

The law touched off more than a decade of litigation.

The news touched off a heated debate in the group.

And then she touched off the mixture with a match.

By the time he got there, the fire had already started touching off ammunition.

That touched off a series of meetings between top military officials in both countries.

"This will just touch off their own sense of helplessness."

This being Chicago, the heat also touched off a political emergency.

But even this thought touched off another wave of anger.

It resumed again, as though touched off by the greater sound.

Probably we wouldn't touch off talk that'd reach official ears.

We'd been in touch off and on since then.

Land values also began to fall, touching off the Panic of 1819.

Once again he'd touched off a spark of anger in the young woman.