It may well be that the economic platform to which he referred may well prove to be a trapdoor.
However, the partial legislative character of the codes represents a trapdoor for industry and commerce.
For many producers, particularly producers of store stock, that floor simply turned out to be a trapdoor on a scaffold.
In one of his more colourful moments he said we were standing on a trapdoor.
You opened a trapdoor and there was a world which existed only in science fiction films.
It can be a springboard to a successful recovery, or it can be a trapdoor through which we can fall further.
I notice that he has just emerged through a trapdoor.
Will he carefully consider whether that trapdoor should be sealed permanently?
