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Walking time-bomb.
A person whose behaviour is erratic and totally unpredictable is a walking time-bomb.
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I know, but there is an inbuilt time bomb I need to keep on top of.
As the author of an Independent front-page article published in December 2014, headlined "Revealed: Osborne's debt time bomb", I suppose I have a dog in this fight.
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Ladies of the Labs problem number 2. Dear Dr. Bridget, I am a female 30-something postdoc whose biological clock is ticking like a time bomb, but I'd also like to become a group leader in the next few years.
I don't have a medical degree (yet), and even Siri doesn't know how many ticks are left in those time bombs, but I'm thinking that if anything sinks New York it'll be Masahiro Tanaka's arm issues, not A-Rod's hips.
"I feel like a time bomb -- as if I have been pushed out to sea on my own punctured life raft".
Unfortunately, Sushi didn't last more than a handful of months and died after he ate himself to death with a time-released food bomb I had put in his bowl before a vacation.
Do you think that's OK?'" "A big, thoroughly unlikable time bomb of an oaf I worked with in grad school walked in, whipped it out, started to wizz, and then put his hands on his hips and stood like that the whole time he pittled," says Stuart.
And, if I could get that malware on industrial control systems for thousands of floodgates throughout the U.S., now I have something that's like a ticking time bomb or a precision weapon that I could launch at will".
"I felt like I had a ticking time bomb inside me.
I must carp that the final fourth of the picture undergoes so many 'ticking time bomb' elements of the genre that I can only wonder how much of the actual attempted escape is fictionalized.
"They tell me I'm a time bomb," John said.
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