touch off

Meaning

1. touch sth off

   to make sth begin, especially a difficult or violent situation

In the movies · 2

• Don't touch her! Get off her, get off her!Knock at the Cabin2023
• - Don't touch me! Get off! - Take that stupid mask off!Project Power2020

From the same entry

• be touched with
• not touch with a bargepole
• touch base
• touch bottom
• touch wood
• strike a chord
• touch your forelock
• not harm a hair of head
• hit a nerve
• catch on the raw
• touch down
• touch for