Examples of keg

• The expellees would otherwise become a potential social and political powder keg, the source of 'political and economic' unrest.

• The brewery is going through a reorganisation, and part of the reorganisation will involve the re-equipping of the keg-filling operation.

• If we block this prospect, we shall be storing up a powder keg.

• We are sitting on a powder keg of outdated nuclear installations.

• I beg them not to ignite the powder keg that is smouldering in the countryside.

• Those two problems form a double powder keg in the region.

• As we have heard, we are discussing one of the potential powder kegs of the world today.

• When an endeavour was made to draw off the whisky from the keg, it was found that there was water coming out.