Synonyms for powder keg
pow·der keg

Princeton's WordNet

1. powder kegnoun

   a potentially explosive state

2. powder kegnoun

   keg (usually made of metal) for gunpowder or blasting powder

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1. • Danger
   • Keg

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1. Former Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening:

   He understands what it is like to be the top elected official in a really challenging urban area, including the area of law enforcement, what you've got here is a powder keg in the sense that the community doesn't trust the police and the police doesn't trust the community, amidst a growing sense of poverty and inequity and hopelessness.

2. Oleh Sych:

   This is the scariest thing - we're living on a powder keg. We don't know where else has been compromised. We can protect everything, we can teach administrators never to open emails, but the system is already infected.

3. Ben Carson:

   Somebody did something inappropriate and therefore she understood -- I believe -- that she was sitting on a powder keg and needed to do something to calm the situation down.