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tinderboxnoun a potentially explosive place or situationofficials sought to calm the situation, which had grown into a tinderbox a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive actionwhile the country's prime minister was meeting with the U.S. president, a political tinderbox was igniting at home boiling point, breaking point, clutch, conjuncture, crisis, crossroad(s), crunch, crunch time, Dunkirk, emergency, exigency, extremity, flash point, head, juncture, zero hour contingency, possibilityclimax, turning pointhappening, landmark, milestonecondition, pass, situation, straitdeadlock, impasse, stalematecorner, fix, hole, hot water, jam, last ditch, pinch, predicament, scrape, spoteleventh hour, last minute moment of truth, point of no return in 1530 |