The phrase "a pool of gasoline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a quantity of gasoline that has collected in a specific area, often implying a potential hazard or flammability.
Example: "The fire department arrived quickly to contain the fire that had ignited from a pool of gasoline spilled on the ground."
Alternatives: "a puddle of gasoline" or "a reservoir of gasoline".
He told the Washington Post proudly, "It was like tossing a match on a pool of gasoline".
Mrs. Potts stepped out into a pool of gasoline and was soon engulfed in flames, which William beat out after rolling her on the ground.
Witnesses said that one vindictive looter whom officers tried to push away lit a match and threw it into a pool of gasoline.
In 1986, a year and a half after it first aired, Paul Taylor, a reporter at the Washington Post, quoted McCarthy speaking proudly of the ad, part of what Taylor called "one of political Washington's instant legends": "It was like tossing a match on a pool of gasoline," said Larry McCarthy of Ailes Communications, who wrote the ad.
"A typical gasoline car only has a thin metal sheet protecting the underbody, leaving it vulnerable to destruction of the fuel supply lines or fuel tank, which causes a pool of gasoline to form and often burn the entire car to the ground".
The film climaxed with the man shooting a flaming arrow into a pool of gasoline to kill the homicidal cat.
Megan McCardle at The Atlantic sympathizes with the sentiment, but thinks the Fed had to act: Allowing [Bear Stearns] to fail would have been like throwing a hand grenade into a burning pool of gasoline; bankruptcy proceedings are time-consuming and uncertain.
A pool of blood surrounded her.
A10 Nigeria Struggles Against Fire Firefighters tried to douse burning pools of gasoline in southern Nigeria, struggling to extinguish a pipeline fire as villagers hastily buried charred bodies.
Firefighters tried to douse burning pools of gasoline today in southern Nigeria, struggling to extinguish a pipeline fire as villagers hastily buried charred bodies.
