The Conservative leader is formidable, a successful barrister with a good grasp of detail, albeit with a well-documented short fuse. |
Yet he has a very short fuse, perhaps the inevitable result of coping with his blindness in such a pressurised job. |
However, I have my weaknesses, and one of them is that I have a pretty short fuse when I think someone is questioning my limits. |
He now has a very short fuse so far as temper tantrums are concerned. |
He had a very short fuse and he could be totally irrational at times. |
He had a short fuse and would sometimes berate her when she spoke too much to Gluck. |