Tickle The Dragon's Tail Definition

verb

To do something that has a risk of going catastrophically wrong.

Climbing so close to an erupting volcano was tickling the dragon's tail.

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To annoy an irritable person.

Don't tell him the headline's misprinted; you don't want to tickle the dragon's tail.

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To bring two subcritical masses close together in order to find the edge of criticality .

The laboratory head tickles the dragon's tail whenever we have guests as a show of machismo.

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Origin of Tickle The Dragon's Tail

From the obvious risk of tickling a dragon 's tail. In physics, it was by American physicist Richard Feynman TICKLE THE DRAGONS TAIL TICKLE THE DRAGONS TAIL to describe the experiments of Louis Slotin at Los Alamos National Laboratory .

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