| 单词 | waiting to happen |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswaiting to happen waiting to happen: (esp. of an undesirable outcome) extremely likely to occur or develop at some point in the future. Cf. an accident waiting to happen at accident n. Phrases 8. ΚΠ 1913 M. P. Willcocks Will to Live iv. 62 These bare cliffs, these miles and miles of sea, and all sorts of dreadful things waiting to happen. 1964 Pop. Sci. Oct. (title page) Dangerous dams—disasters waiting to happen. 1966 Flying Oct. 48/2 An ancient converted airframe is a midair breakup just waiting to happen. 1998 L. Forbes Bombay Ice (1999) 211 A golden, glittering pair who had it all to start with and added a shiny skin of fame to what they had been given. A dynasty waiting to happen. 2012 Independent 21 Jan. (Mag.) 3/5 A triumph of imagination and engineering or a disaster waiting to happen? < as lemmas |
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