sit on a volcano

[sit on a volcano] {v.}, {informal}

1. To be in a place where trouble may start or danger may come suddenly.

* /Bob was in that part of South America before the revolution began. He knew he was sitting on a volcano./

* /The policemen who patrolled the big city slum area that summer were sitting on a volcano./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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