time bomb

So that was just a ticking time bomb until the Germans had to do something.

A case could be made that Bynes was, in effect, a ticking time bomb.

But in the background, a separate time-bomb is ticking for Israel.

“This is a time bomb which preoccupies us most,” he told a panel at Davos.

Some officials in China do recognize that Tibet is a time bomb waiting to explode.

"According to the time-bomb down below," repeated Mr. Conne, still sociably but with a keen, searching look.

It would be just like you to have set a time bomb somewhere in this submarine to blow her up after you were all safely out of her.

Despite his liking for Prochaska, Crag couldn't forget that he had failed to find the time bomb in a panel he had twice searched.

Look at them now—the missile attack on the Aztec, the time bomb plant, the way they operate their networks right in our midst.

Privately, he had decided that no man would be left alone until the mystery of the time bomb was cleared up.