powder keg

A situation that could quickly become very volatile and dangerous. It became obvious we were sitting on a powder keg as the protests in the city became more frequent.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Freda	['fri:də]
Metushelach	-	Biblical Hebrew
Dmitri	DMEE-tree	Russian
Stanton	['sta:ntən]
Ari (3)	-	Armenian
Narayanan	-	Indian, Malayalam, Tamil