tinderbox Meaning & Definition

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Meaning of tinderbox In English

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  • Two-thirds of our under-18s out of work could transform every city centre in the country into a tinderbox.

  • I believe that the problems in the middle east are of such a nature that we are living in a tinderbox.

  • It is a tinderbox, and it has the capacity to spread.

  • As was said earlier, they work in a tinderbox environment, which puts tremendous stress and strain on them.

  • Therefore, they are the most likely tinderbox.

  • The present regime of slopping out and being locked up in cells for 23 hours a day in some instances, particularly in a hot summer, obviously has a tinderbox effect.

  • The remainder of the first half would be a tinderbox with numerous spot fights erupting all over the ground.

  • Tinderbox is described as a detective tool for software development.

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