The phrase "light the fuse" is correct and suitable for use in written English.
Example sentence: "He lit the fuse and ran for cover as the explosives went off."
It's time to light the fuse!
"They're petrified that somebody's going to light the fuse".
It is saying we have to light the fuse and get going.
With this thing, you just step on the pedal, light the fuse and keep steering".
Time to light the fuse," in addition to the "ends with breakfast" advice.
America may light the fuse, but we will feel the heat - not least, through our own Muslim populations.
And Saudi Twitter users set up an Arabic hashtag complaining of an Iranian "conspiracy to light the fuse of sectarianism".
Entsch told Guardian Australia last month that any move to disendorse Nicholls, Minnikin or Stuckey would "light the fuse" for party demerger talks.
His new position on the customs union is meant to light the fuse that leads – however circuitously – to a confidence vote in the PM and another general election.
"He just needs something to light the fuse, to get him going," the men on TV kept saying in the first set against Cilic.
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith told The Telegraph that he's "not scared to light the fuse on disability reform".
