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tinderbox
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1
a potentially explosive place or situation
- Officials sought to calm the situation which had grown into a tinderbox.
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2
a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action
- While the country's prime minister was meeting with the U.S president, a political tinderbox was igniting at home.
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moment of truth, point of no return
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