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tinderbox
Word family
tin·der·box /ˈtɪndəbɒks $ -dərbɑːks/ noun
1 [countableC usually singular]PROBLEM a place or situation that is dangerous and where there could suddenly be a lot of fighting or problems 危机四伏的地区[形势]
Examples from the Corpus
tinderbox• The refugee camps are a tinderbox waiting to catch fire.• Others plan to leave the Southwest for northern states untouched by the drought that has left Arizona a tinderbox.• They can go for years without rain there, and when that happens, the whole state turns into a tinderbox.• At the top of the cellar steps Broadman knelt down and fumbled in his tinderbox.• The Balkans have a long and tragically deserved reputation as a political tinderbox.
tin·der·box noun
Chinese
Syllable
Corpus
tinderbox
Dangerous or exciting situations: danger, crisis, emergency...
Things used for lighting fires and making flames: faggot, firelighter, incendiary...
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