time fuse
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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
