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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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What if a preeminent global health authority declared there's a public health "time bomb" among us?
As Dr. Piot argued, if we maintain the status quo, Alzheimer's is the "time bomb" among us.
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France was stripped of a gold-plated credit rating last week, days after a controversial Economist cover - showing a bundle of baguettes tied together with a lighted fuse to resemble a time bomb - sparked fury among officials.
Plus, language barriers, racial biases, and extreme stress among the migrants, government workers, and volunteers combine into a ticking time bomb of emotional distress and confusion.
"Walking time bomb".
It has been a ticking time bomb.
My arse is a time bomb, lads.
Ticking time bomb is what people say.
"This is a ticking time bomb.
(Gordon Rattray Taylor, The Biological Time Bomb, 1968).
"It's a ticking time bomb".
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