We are dealing with customers all the time and the last thing we need is our workers feeling hungry and testy.
The game got testy in the fourth quarter, when seven technical fouls were called.
Years later, the sacking still makes the normally placid Burt uncharacteristically testy, but he doesn't dwell on it.
I found him to be very sensitive on his criminal record and extremely testy in responding to questions about it.
One could see Martin getting testy, but he had no choice but to answer the questions, which were good questions.
She asked me to pass on her apologies for being testy in comments threads, which I'm sure are wholly unnecessary in any case.
Each visit involved a long wait and at least one unpleasant interaction with a testy employee.
From out of nowhere, your boy can snap from cool and calm to angry and testy!
Maybe she's testy because she's not long out of hospital with a viral condition.
I get testy when people put whole books or short stories or poems up on their website, without permission, especially when they know it's wrong.
But he got testy whenever reporters got close to what might have been driving the deal.
I want to ask you first, Ron, about polls because Roger and Karen get testy with me when I bring up polls.
My escorts exited the bus and a testy female officer instructed them to walk through a metal detector.
Several campers are surprisingly rude and testy when you attempt to engage them in conversation.
The Democrats are daring to hope and the Republicans are testy and on edge.
The minute he is questioned, he becomes testy and defensive.
I've never seen a government official get quite this testy with a reporter.
The Chair: This is your last question, in case you want to get testy, so make it good.
Uncovering the source of a testy temper is a great place to start when focusing on behaviour change.
Evaluators can also get extremely testy if they are working 24 hours a day.
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But in a testy and sometimes fractious debate, China was not granted the same favored trading status.
And like human workers, they can get a little testy when you make them work harder than they need to.
But, it has to be said that the younger web users can, at times, be a little impetuous and testy, too ready to either take offence, offend or flame.
I don't blame Rosenthal for being a bit testy after my cheekiness.
He seems impatient with you, almost testy to the point of animosity.
Ryan got testy too, playing the man rather than the ball at times, while his body language drooped as the debate went on.
We don't come to this world mean and nasty to begin with, but sometimes circumstances make us just a little testy.
Given her testy relations with management, it would be easy to label Simpson a troublemaker.
During his first year in college, Ma made a futile effort to be sociable but ended up becoming more testy, frequently quarrelling with his classmates.
There is a relationship that develops, tense and often testy, between a journalist and his quarry.
In the circumstances he might have been forgiven for being a little testy.
By contrast, the PQ's Bernard Landry is a shrewd but often testy warhorse of the secessionist movement.
The currency will remain subject to downward pressure and volatility as investor sentiment toward Emerging European assets remains testy and concerns around public finances linger.
This last area has become increasingly testy in Washington, where costly rooftop solar panels have spread alongside pop-ups in many residential neighbourhoods.
In a testy email exchange on the issue, Mr Dershowitz and blogger Glenn Greenwald resorted to ad hominem attacks on each other, questioning one another's rationality, intelligence and integrity.
The Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul walked out of a live interview with the Guardian on Friday, in his third testy exchange with a journalist since launching his campaign for president three days ago.

He was now in that unpleasant state of prickly heat when testy old gentlemen could commit slaughter with ecstasy.
This, reader, is the abode of the testy but extremely dignified Mrs. Swiggs.
He didn't know it, but she was trying to say she was sorry she had been impatient and testy.
He was a testy man, and struck the stone an impatient blow with his staff.
He was yellower and grayer, and he was getting testy and irascible.
Dear me, dear me,' replied a testy voice, 'I am very sorry for it, but what am I to do?
The raid was the latest incident pointing to increasingly testy relations between conservative Macri and the outgoing leftist president, Cristina Fernandez, ahead of his Dec.
Jos, a little testy about his father's misfortunes and unceremonious applications to him, was soothed down by the Major, who pointed out the elder's ill fortunes and old age.

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