ticking bomb
time bomb

He had the look of a man who held a ticking bomb in his hands.

We're sitting on a ticking bomb and I don't like it.

Waiting for an answer, he had the look of someone trapped with a ticking bomb.

He's always said that free humanity is like a ticking bomb.

Whether he is dead or alive, those ticking bombs are his real legacy.

What if he'd been a terrorist armed with a ticking bomb?

"We have fears that it is a ticking bomb waiting to go off."

But there would be nothing frivolous about a ticking bomb.

The plan was comparatively reasonable, but included a ticking bomb.

He rejected the steel door, and forgot the ticking bomb.

And in the story of a racial fugitive, there’s always a ticking bomb.

Rather they are emergency methods used on suspects who may know of a "ticking bomb."

If her story rang true all the way, it meant I might be sharing a room with a ticking bomb.

He lay there and felt like a ticking bomb they were carrying deep into the heart of their territory.

All of this must occur within a limited time frame allowed by the "ticking bomb".

Now Web wondered if he was a ticking bomb.

A simple investigation can rule out the ticking bomb.

When you are with a good friend you should not have your cell phone right here like a ticking bomb.

From the day they announced the matchup, this one was a ticking bomb.

Nobody yet knows how to defuse the ticking bomb of Greece.

She was being careful around him, like someone would be around a ticking bomb.

But as we’ve seen, monetary union without the necessary fiscal infrastructure is a ticking bomb.

"Carrie is always sitting on her own personal ticking bomb," Danes said.

He called the food situation in the area "a ticking bomb," with time running out for feeding populations this winter.

Iblis held it with nervous care, as if he had been given a ticking bomb.

No one wanted to get too close to a human time bomb.

Have you anything in the line of a time bomb?

I could be sitting here with a time bomb in my head.

We are really going into the next global health time bomb.

That was when he had started a time bomb set by himself!

Now he knew no one would hear his time bombs going off.

I just told you, he was a walking time bomb.

For there was more involved than just a simple time bomb.

He's like a time bomb, just waiting for the right moment.

This should be a good enough place to set up our time bomb.

You put that all together, and you've got a time bomb.

All this means, among other things, that we have a time bomb in our social security systems.

If anyone were going to use a time bomb, that would be the place to do it.

All these months - it's been like sitting on a time bomb.

I'm a walking time bomb, is what the doctor told me.

So you are building a time bomb for future generations.

And they were the words of the formula for the time bomb.

What if other such time bombs were hidden in the system?

Having him around is like taking chances with a time bomb.

We were crazy to think it was a time bomb.

Other teams saying you're a time bomb doesn't get it done.

I don't see how that fellow got in here with the time bomb.

The world's largest art collection was now sitting on a time bomb.

By opening the safe, he set off the first of my time bombs.

The fear with conflict is that these kids are potential time bombs for the future.