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Easily upset or irritated

Requiring great skill or finesse in handling or treatment

Capable of being ignited

Having a predisposition to argue or engage in confrontations

Dangerous or full of peril

Arousing or able to arouse intense feeling

Causing embarrassment or unease

Decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something

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Adjective

Easily upset or irritated

easily offended

bundle of nerves

ill-humoured^UK

like a bear with a sore head

on a short fuse

as cross as two sticks

confrontational

having got out of bed the wrong side

hot under the collar

having got out of bed on the wrong side

uncommunicative

not best pleased

bent out of shape

foaming at the mouth

ready for a fight

prima donna-ish

hot under collar

easily provoked

apt to fly off the handle

hyper-sensitive

perversely irritable

got up on wrong side of bed

having short fuse

quick to take offense

easily affected

easily frightened

easily agitated

have chip on shoulder

huffy irascible

in high dudgeon

quick to take offence

unaccommodating

difficult to handle

throwing a wobbly

hot-and-bothered

beside yourself

at the end of your tether

out of your mind

knock-down-and-drag-out

hammer and tongs

pass-remarkable

blue in the face

with all guns blazing

evil-intentioned

hot and bothered

down in the mouth

beside yourself with rage

gnashing one's teeth

at boiling point

in a filthy temper

burning with excitement

ready to be tied

having a fit of the sulks

as black as thunder

with a long face

at daggers drawn

rubbed the wrong way

overcome with anger

at end of one's rope

carrying a chip on your shoulder

in a towering rage

extremely angry

spoiling for a fight

out of countenance

not on speaking terms

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“Before the Parkinsons he was never a touchy kind of guy.”

Adjective

Requiring great skill or finesse in handling or treatment

like herding cats

full of problems

beset by problems

incomprehensible

easier said than done

energy-consuming

discountenancing

difficult to understand

full of twists and turns

like getting blood out of a stone

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“The biggest expenditure in those days was the horse feed for the fire department, a touchy subject in a town that had already burned down a couple of times by then.”

Adjective

Capable of being ignited

Adjective

Having a predisposition to argue or engage in confrontations

Adjective

Dangerous or full of peril

jeopardising^UK

jeopardizing^US

fraught with danger

playing with fire

Russian roulette

hanging by a thread

life-threatening

on collision course

hanging by thread

hanging in the balance

on slippery ground

on a slippery slope

unfavourable^UK

easily threatened

full of upheavals

potentially violent

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Adjective

Arousing or able to arouse intense feeling

over-sentimental

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Adjective

Causing embarrassment or unease

discountenancing

dishonouring^UK

disadvantageous

dishonourable^UK

dishonorable^US

demoralising^UK

demoralizing^US

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Adjective

Decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something

hanging by thread

of significance

of great consequence

of great importance

of great import

earth-shattering

no laughing matter

world-shattering

earthshattering

matter of life and death

vitally important

of vital importance

of great moment

extremely important

ground-breaking

most influential

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