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bomba de relojería
A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time.
At 9.40 a.m. on Bank Holiday Monday, August 5, a ganger found what was thought to be a time bomb at a level crossing at Tempsford, near Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, […] Inside one bo…
bomba de relojería
A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time.
Even so, they managed to morph the recent European parliamentary elections into a time bomb and plant it under their country’s own future.
Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.
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