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time bomb

  1. an explosive device connected to a timer that will set it off at a given moment
  2. any potentially destructive state of affairs

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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