Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - tinderbox
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Tinderbox
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noun Date: 1530 1. a. a metal box for holding tinder and usually a flint and steel for striking a spark b. a highly inflammable object or place 2. a potentially explosive place or situation ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate 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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