time fuse
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Other matters also have a short time fuse.
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2020
In the tick of a time fuse he is being smuggled into Japan by the Korean underground as Sergeant Tomo Takashima, a returning war hero.
From Time Magazine Archive
The airman drops a powerful magnesium-powder flash bulb equipped with a time fuse which explodes it near the ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the time fuse would ignite the incendiaries.
From Time Magazine Archive
S'pose there's a time fuse lit when it's a human listening, like a stick of Tom and Jerry dynamite?
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
