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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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BBC2's The World: American Time Bomb was stylistically a deeply irritating programme last night, and I only caught the back half.
Robert Neill, the Conservative chairman of the Commons justice committee, told the programme that the MPs on his committee had warned the government that a "time bomb was ticking" because prisons were in crisis.
On Friday, a software time bomb was set to go off at 3 p.m. E.D.T., when all the SoBig-infected machines were to have received new instructions from 20 infected master machines.
While there was little data to back up the existence of this delayed syndrome, the image of the veteran as a walking time bomb was a boon to the antiwar movement, which used it as proof that military aggression destroys minds and annihilates souls.
I felt like a ticking time bomb was growing inside me.
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Ticking time bomb is what people say.
"That time bomb is now exploding or about to explode".
"The ticking time bomb is the retirees," Mr. Usher said.
It has been called a time bomb and that time bomb is about to go off".
The Continent, no longer a ticking time bomb, is "potentially facing a starker problem," Liz Alderman and Jack Ewing write in DealBook.
A home-made time bomb is ticking away under the government timed to explode just before the local elections.
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