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tin⋅der⋅box

  [tin-der-boks]
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–noun
1. a box for holding tinder, usually fitted with a flint and steel.
2. a person or thing that is highly excitable, explosive, inflammable, etc.; a potential source of widespread violence: Berlin was the tinderbox of Europe.
Origin:
1520–30; tinder + box 1
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tin·der·box   (tĭn'dər-bŏks')   
n.  

  1. A metal box for holding tinder.

  2. A potentially explosive place or situation: referred to the crowded prison as a tinderbox of suppressed violence.

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Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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