Hassan also thought that she had a very long fuse, but if it reached the end then you would see the spark in her.

If so, it is a bomb with a long and unpredictable fuse.

But war has a long fuse, and a slow match.

A match is struck and touched to the end of the long fuse.

My impression is that most public service workers have a long fuse.

Like her mother, she had never been known for having a long fuse.

But Campbell's long fuse is apparently burning down to its end.

It has been an explosion that had a long fuse.

What a situation: a bomb with a long fuse!

A long fuse reached out of the cannon and trailed to the ground.