It is, like the laws about tax cuts and public spending that were set to kick in in America at midnight on New Year's Eve, and, like the problems with the euro which might still lead to the break-up of Europe, like a bomb that might explode, or a cliff you might fall off.
By September, the question of whether this long-simmering border dispute might explode became a matter of when, rather than if.
And fearing that the chemicals might explode in a home, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered residents to run fans and otherwise ensure ventilation while bathing or washing clothes.
She puffed out her cheeks and looked as though she might explode in a cloud of bird-bone beads and tattered bashkwegin.
One only has to glance at Angela Carter to see the sort of grubby, seductive bawdiness that might explode from a contained world of greasepaint and sawdust.
Tell people that nuclear waste will be buried in concentrations hot enough to melt rock, he says, and some will worry that it might explode like a volcano.Some say the stuff should not be permanently buried at all.
Thirty-five years later, Williams is still taking notes, believing the tiniest idea might explode into a meaningful song that could be the genesis of another groundbreaking album.
Some parts of it might be very linear indeed, while other parts might explode into a metalogue of crazed and sometimes discordant voices.
All of the arm wrestlers in it are super intense, oiled up monsters who scream at each other in that early 90s WWF wrestler kind of way where you think their heads might explode from a mixture of steroids and anger.
Fill it with as much water as possible for a bigger spray of water, but listen to your instincts that it might explode with a water overflow.
