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sitting on a powder keg
Fig. in a risky or explosive situation; in a situation where something serious or dangerous may happen at any time. (A powder keg is a keg of gunpowder.) Things are very tense at work. The whole office is sitting on a powder keg. The fire at the oilfield seems to be under control for now, but all the workers there are sitting on a powder keg.
See also: powder, sitting
a powder keg
a situation that could suddenly become extremely dangerous
Usage notes: A powder keg was a wooden container for gunpowder (= a substance used for making explosions).
We left just before the revolution, realizing that we were sitting on a powder keg.
See also: powder
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uses dextrose to bottle-condition its beers, but the kegged brews are corn-free.
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Cold fermentation takes four to eight weeks, then the beer is kegged and kept refrigerated.
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Originally a draft-only beer made at the Oskar Blues brewpub in Lyons, CO, Mama's Little Yella Pils is now brewed, canned and kegged at the brewery's Longmont facility.
Oskar Blues cans Mama's Yella Pils by Modern Brewery Age
 
 
 
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