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time fuse

NOUN
time bomb
Synonyms


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Other matters also have a short time fuse.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2020

Last week, an unobserved concussion jarred Annie's dormant time fuse into action.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like a stink bomb with a time fuse, a typescript of Nicholas Crabbe has lain for almost half a century in Oxford's Bodleian Library.

From Time Magazine Archive

As such, it was less a bombshell than a slow-burning time fuse.

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




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