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tinderboxesnounpl. of tinderbox 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 points, breaking points, clutches, conjunctures, crises, crossroads, crunches, crunch times, Dunkirks, emergencies, exigencies, extremities, flash points, heads, junctures, zero hours contingencies, possibilitiesclimaxes, turning pointshappenings, landmarks, milestonesconditions, passes, situations, straitsdeadlocks, impasses, stalematescorners, fixes, holes, hot waters, jams, last ditches, pinches, predicaments, scrapes, spotseleventh hours, last minutes moments of truth, points of no return |