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词汇 accident-waiting-to-happen
释义

an accident waiting to happen


idiom
a very dangerous situation in which an accident is very likely早晚会出事
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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accident
accidental
accidentally
accidentally on purposeidiom
accidents will happenidiom
cataclysm
cataclysmic
cataclysmically
catastrophe
catastrophic
disastrous
disastrously
doomsday scenario
dumpster fire
emergency
non-emergency
perfect storm
post-accident
snafu
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Potential

Examples of an accident waiting to happen


an accident waiting to happen
There's always anaccidentwaitingtohappen, even when we don't know when and in what form it will come.
She said that in many respects, the tragedy was anaccidentwaitingtohappen.
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The consequence was entirely foreseeable; it was anaccidentwaitingtohappen.
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I think he will find that all the major engineers were saying that that was anaccidentwaitingtohappen.
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In my opinion anaccidentwaitingtohappen.
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It is a powder keg waiting to blow—anaccidentwaitingtohappen.
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Here we have anaccidentwaitingtohappen which could affect us as badly as the nuclear industry.
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I believe that it is anaccidentwaitingtohappen.
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Still, the road is anaccidentwaitingtohappen.
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It is "anaccidentwaitingtohappen", as my constituent says in his letter.
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In other words, it is anaccidentwaitingtohappen.
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Many aid agencies say that, economically, it was anaccidentwaitingtohappen.
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First, there was the immediate tragedy and the clear consensus that it was anaccidentwaitingtohappen.
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Unfortunately, some doctors are anaccidentwaitingtohappen.
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For aircraft to depart and arrive at an airport over the same path in opposite directions is not the happiest arrangement and is in fact anaccidentwaitingtohappen.
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