- 看过 sitting on a powder keg 的人也看了 :
- between a rock and a hard place
- between two fires
- cornered
sitting on a powder keg 的定义
- In imminent danger, in an explosive situation, as in Our office is sitting on a powder keg while management decides whether or not to close us down. This metaphoric term alludes to sitting on a keg of gunpowder that could go off at any moment. [First half of 1900s]
sitting on a powder keg 近义词
等同于 between the devil and the deep blue sea
更多sitting on a powder keg例句
- Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
- And it might be what Islamists complain about while sitting in their caves.
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- Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
- He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
- All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.
- If old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.
- It is to be feared that the attractions of the house-dinner were not the sole inducement to many of those sitting there.