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Explosive situation
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tinderbox
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Tinderbox are a UK-based acoustic duo featuring vocalist Monique Houraghan (born Dublin, Ireland in 1976) and guitarist Dan Tucker (born Hampshire, UK in 1974). The pair met at university in Yorkshire in 1994 and soon began writing and performing together. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also tinder-box , "box in which tinder and flint are kept," 1520s, from tinder + box (n.); figurative sense of " 'inflammable' person or thing" is attested from 1590s.
Usage examples of tinderbox.
Gaal in all, with their tents and cookpots and travois and hann and fur rugs and axes and armlets and cradleboards and tinderboxes, all their scant belongings, and their fear of the Whiter, and their hunger.
So while Taran scrabbled about gathering dry twigs and leaves and moss for a cook-fire, Koja returned yet again to the treetop and came back down with the tinderbox wherewith a thoughtful and foresighted supply officer had decided each scoutcraft cabin should be outfitted.
Not telling anyone else on the Essex what he was up to, the mischievous Chappel (who was, according to Nickerson, “fond of fun at whatever expense”) brought a tinderbox ashore with him.
With the help of the tinderbox stored in the whale-boat's small keg of emergency equipment, they kindled a fire in the shell and cooked the terrapin, “.
He'd heard Montana had had the original Tinderbox stuffed and mounted and was reluctant to find out that the story wasn't just an urban myth.
Alder Owls hands were full of things on every crossing: clean clothes, a cheese, dried yellow dock and feverfew, a tinderbox, a wool mantle.