| 单词 | an accident waiting to happen |
| 释义 | > as lemmasan accident waiting to happen P8. an accident waiting to happen: a person or thing likely to cause trouble or harm; a potentially disastrous situation, esp. resulting from carelessness or neglect. ΚΠ 1920 Ada (Okla.) Evening News 23 June 4/2 No amount of talk would induce us to register as an ‘independent’. An independent is an accident waiting to happen. 1954 N.Y. Times Mag. 5 Sept. 41/1 Frightening parents with specters of ‘accidents waiting to happen’ can be self-defeating. 1962 D. Rogers & M. Bucci Our Miss Brooks xii. 129 Friends and foes, say ‘There she goes, An accident waiting to happen!’ 1985 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 Oct. c7/1 He has been knocked incessantly—over-rated, hopeless in his own end, an accident waiting to happen. 1991 Business (BNC) July 84 The insurer has so far agreed to pay £8 million in compensation to investors,..a nasty hit for one slip in its monitoring system. Unless, of course, it was an accident waiting to happen. 2011 B. Sharpsteen Docks iii. 43 The broken equipment..should have been fixed but instead stayed in service. It is an accident waiting to happen. < as lemmas |
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