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Discover LudwigThe phrase "about to erupt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that is on the verge of becoming intense or explosive, whether literally (like a volcano) or metaphorically (like emotions or conflicts).
Example: "The tension in the room was palpable, and it felt like the argument was about to erupt at any moment."
Alternatives: "on the verge of exploding" or "ready to burst".
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French social services billet them in a dilapidated banlieue estate, where Dheepan works as a caretaker – and where a drug war is about to erupt.
In just 12 years these pressure fronts are about to erupt because of something as simple as how documents are notarized.
In 1952 (as the civil rights movement was about to erupt), gay African American Pulitzer Prize winner James Baldwin prophetically warned, "The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose".
"It is a volcano, shaking, about to erupt".
Such volunteers know when a fight is about to erupt over, for example, a stolen girlfriend.
The maniacal gleam in his eye hints at an inner lunatic about to erupt.
Now a fight for control of the heart of this megalopolis is about to erupt.
The heat of that June was only a bland predictor of the frenzy about to erupt.
HE trekked up volcanoes about to erupt and waded through jungle rivers full of poisonous stingrays.
A friend of mine says another volcano is about to erupt in Iceland.
The city, Padura writes, "was about to erupt, and the clouds of smoke it was giving off were warning signs".
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