Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - tinderbox
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also tinder box (tinderboxes) If you say that a situation is a tinderbox, you mean that it is very tense and something dangerous or unpleasant is likely to happen very soon. N-COUNT: usu sing ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n 1 C usually singular a place or situation that is dangerous and where there could suddenly be a lot of fighting or problems (Racial tension was high, and the southern states were a real tinderbox.) 2 a box containing things needed to make a flame, used in former times ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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