powder keg

火药桶粉桶粉末桶粉壶

powder keg 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a small, metal, barrellike container for gunpowder or blasting powder.
  2. a potentially dangerous situation, especially one involving violent repercussions.

powder keg 近义词

n. 名词 noun

explosive situation

powder keg 的近义词 2

更多powder keg例句

  1. Instead, we were confined and crammed into boardrooms and claustrophobic strategy sessions, the expanse of the series’ setpieces packed into a powder keg.
  2. 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.
  3. Then the big concern is what happens over the weekend when Ida enters the Gulf of Mexico, a meteorological powder keg.
  4. It’s a powder keg waiting to explode unless the police and army are able to enforce the rule of law.
  5. 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.
  6. Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.
  7. Other versions are coated in marzipan, or dusted in powder sugar.
  8. This powder can be shipped anywhere and then reconstituted—just add water, as if it were instant coffee.
  9. So the new inhaled powder measles vaccine may in a few years turn out to be an easier way to protect kids from measles.
  10. They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.
  11. If old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.
  12. The law went into operation in England imposing a tax on wearing hair powder.
  13. The girl began to hum, as she powdered her nose with a white glove, lying in a powder box.
  14. Steam machinery would accomplish more than nine-tenths of all the work, besides saving the expense of all the powder.
  15. When first seen it is said to have had a pasty consistency, but on exposure to the air it dried and crumbled into powder.