powder barrel

“There’s a lot in the local powder barrel that we can’t get a lid on,” the city’s mayor, Michael Galander, told the German daily Die Tageszeitung last year.

But that first shot was the spark that touched off the powder barrel.

I would rather sit on a powder barrel than talk with a woman.

As the folds of the familiar banner caught the breeze and floated out over the flat-roofed houses of the little town, Ide, the late chief of the three-weeks republic, jumping on a powder barrel, swung his sombrero in the air and shouted: "Now, boys, all together, three cheers for the Union!"

I would rather sit on a powder barrel than talk with a woman.