- 看过 powder keg 的人也看了 :
- time bomb
- loose cannon
powder keg 的定义
- a small, metal, barrellike container for gunpowder or blasting powder.
- a potentially dangerous situation, especially one involving violent repercussions.
powder keg 近义词
explosive situation
powder keg 的近义词 2 个
更多powder keg例句
- Instead, we were confined and crammed into boardrooms and claustrophobic strategy sessions, the expanse of the series’ setpieces packed into a powder keg.
- Chile’s transformation from a neoliberal experiment led by Milton Friedman’s “Chicago Boys” to a powder keg of leftist activism is one not many saw coming.
- Then the big concern is what happens over the weekend when Ida enters the Gulf of Mexico, a meteorological powder keg.
- It’s a powder keg waiting to explode unless the police and army are able to enforce the rule of law.
- For all that they poke fun at Josh’s cub-reporter opportunism, Schur, Helms and Ornelas—a Navajo showrunner leading a rare staff of Indigenous writers, Schmieding among them—also clearly see Rutherford Falls as an allegorical powder keg.
- Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.
- Other versions are coated in marzipan, or dusted in powder sugar.
- This powder can be shipped anywhere and then reconstituted—just add water, as if it were instant coffee.
- So the new inhaled powder measles vaccine may in a few years turn out to be an easier way to protect kids from measles.
- They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.
- If old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.
- The law went into operation in England imposing a tax on wearing hair powder.
- The girl began to hum, as she powdered her nose with a white glove, lying in a powder box.
- Steam machinery would accomplish more than nine-tenths of all the work, besides saving the expense of all the powder.
- When first seen it is said to have had a pasty consistency, but on exposure to the air it dried and crumbled into powder.