touch off
touch off {v.}
1. To cause to fire or explode by lighting the priming or the fuse.
The boy touched off a firecracker.
Compare: SET OFF.
2. To start something as if by lighting a fuse.
The coach's resignation touched off a quarrel.
Compare: SET OFF.
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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms
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