📚 noun • entry_id 30211
tinderbox
Meanings (ES + gloss)
caja de la yesca • yesquero
A small container containing flint, steel, and tinder (dry, finely-divided fibrous matter), once used to help kindle a fire.
Haines helped himself and snapped the case to. He put it back in his sidepocket and took from his waistcoatpocket a nickel tinderbox, sprang it open too, and, having lit his cigare…
Just bring me the old tinderbox that my grandmother forgot the last time she went down there.
polvorín
A potentially dangerous situation.
This act was the "match that ignited the great tinderbox of fuel" that had been building for years between many of the countries in Europe.
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