powder barrel

This is like preaching security and peace while your lighted match is applied to the powder barrel.

So he shifted from the powder barrel to the sharp horn of the other dilemma and shifted back again.

Galusha, listening to his cousin's stories and jokes, had almost forgotten his powder barrel.

Hastily he stepped up to the powder barrel and prepared to pluck out the candle.

Fire in a powder-barrel could not have had a more rousing effect than my determined stand against the enemy.