powder keg

Noun

Meaning

keg (usually made of metal) for gunpowder or blasting powder

a potentially explosive state

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Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal ... A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all ... I cannot tell you when that explosion will occur, but I can tell you where ... Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will set it off. Otto von Bismarck

I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks. I really need you tonight Forever's gonna start tonight Forever's gonna start tonight. Jim Steinman

Whenever you got a racial powder keg sitting in your lap, you're in more trouble than if you had an atomic powder keg sitting in your lap. When a racial powder keg goes off, it doesn't care who it knocks out the way. Understand this, it's dangerous. Malcolm X

You would do better to sit on a powder keg than on the knee of a woman. Russian Proverb

Alleged Israeli provocation at Al-Aqsa and the Temple Mount – holy to both Jews and Muslims – were a match to the powder keg of home demolitions, taxation without services, classroom shortages, and grinding poverty. Source: Internet

It may change your mind about the potential powder keg we’re sitting on. Source: Internet

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