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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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Purpose is a time bomb of boredom.
Do we have a ticking time bomb on hand?
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The growth of the time bomb began one month after the Lehman Brothers collapse (September 16, 2008) ignited worldwide financial market mayhem followed by massive unemployment in the United States.
This wasn't a case of the board paying out an exit bonus to a chief executive with no whiff of a problem, only to find time bombs ticking after he left.
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Or maybe it was the time bomb DRM scheme that detonated your episode after so many days?
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