powder keg in English

noun
1
a barrel of gunpowder.
Heavy was the powder keg in the padded backpack he possessed-he'd taken all he could comfortably carry upon his back.

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1. Afterward, I was a walking talking powder keg.

2. In short, the government's liberality turned universities into a powder-keg.

3. The world now sits on a powder keg of nuclear armaments.

4. 28 Unless these questions are solved, the region will remain a powder keg.

5. 27 The build-up of forces in the region is creating a powder keg.

6. Europe is a powder keg waiting to explode in a war that will engulf the entire continent.

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