Phrases with «touchpaper»

Conservative research unit diggers were hoping they'd lit the blue touchpaper and a media firestorm would begin. (totalpolitics.com)
Other researchers offer alternative ways of lighting the blue touchpaper. (newscientist.com)
Five hundred years since Luther published his ninetyfive theses and lit the touchpaper to launch the Protestant Reformation. (premierchristianity.com)
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