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Significats de tinderbox en anglès

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Ús de tinderbox en anglès
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This emotional tinderbox must be read against the backdrop of other events.
The Guardian
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The west had been a tinderbox since Catelyn had seized Tyrion Lannister.
A Game of Thrones
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Rummaging, he found the small metal box then dug out his tinderbox.
Orb Sceptre Throne
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He fumbled for his tinderbox, but they were on him, truncheons swinging.
Perdido Street Station
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The murders were mere sparks, but Great Britain was a tinderbox.
Anno Dracula
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The arrival of Exodus Jerusalem added a highly combustible element to this tinderbox.
Speaks the Nightbird
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Should someone have suspected that this outwardly docile population might be a tinderbox?
The Guardian
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She found the tinderbox, and with trembling hands struck a light.
White Lies
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The entire city would be a tinderbox-wherein a kiln could one hide?
Helen of troy
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The tower was a tinderbox, stoked with masses of books, parchments, and scrolls.
Map of bones
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So she was either dead, or she was a hundred-year-old tinderbox of antipathy.
Hunter's moon: a novel
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Like the tinderbox it was, the cheap hotel was exploding into roaring flames.
Stories: all-new tales
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Every breath I took tasted like the shavings in a tinderbox.
Bag of Bones
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But the tinderbox issue of Palestinian refugees remains at root.
Reuters
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Sunny, dry conditions created a tinderbox effect that we usually see in the spring.
BBC
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He said that Allen's tinderbox was too small to start much of a blaze.
The heretic's daughter: a novel
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