time bomb

Examples (10)

• He described global warming as an environmental time bomb.
• The country's mounting debt is a ticking financial time bomb.
• His unhealthy lifestyle was a medical time bomb, waiting to cause a heart attack.
• Rising unemployment in the region is creating a social time bomb.
• Her suppressed anger was a psychological time bomb that could explode at any moment.
• The city's aging water pipes are a ticking time bomb for public health.
• The unresolved border dispute remains a political time bomb between the two nations.
• Without a proper pension plan, many people are sitting on a demographic time bomb.
• The company's outdated technology portfolio was a competitive time bomb.
• The government must act now to defuse this economic time bomb before it's too late.