waiting to happen

The former chairman said the current turmoil in financial markets was "an accident waiting to happen" .

Tit for Tat Getting Out of Hand Shots fired across the DMZ at a time of such tension is a potential disaster waiting to happen.

But what's more remarkable (at least to me -- a lay person and an accident waiting to happen) is the relative ease with which he works.

Owen, especially given the explosive nature of his position, is a sudden snap or strain waiting to happen.

"This was an accident waiting to happen, " he said.

But some experts argue that this was an accident waiting to happen.

I don't have to travel to China to see that it is a disaster waiting to happen.

Malema seems to confirm a favourite white and foreign interpretation of South Africa: the country as a colour war waiting to happen.

She wrote a performance review about him that called him a "lawsuit waiting to happen. "

For morning people, trying to get in the zone right after lunch will be a train wreck waiting to happen.

But more important than any of that: this is a patent time-bomb waiting to happen.

This was an accident waiting to happen. He'd have to move quickly.

A decade ago, China's state-owned sector looked like an economic disaster waiting to happen.

The water festival, which sees a city of around 1. 2m swell to more than double its normal size, has ever been a disaster waiting to happen.

A blunderbuss in the hands of a blockhead is a catastrophe waiting to happen. You're not a dunderhead, but exercise great care.

But carriers flying in to the airport warn that the state of the airport makes it an accident waiting to happen.

Everything's more or less rosy in the US and Europe today, but China continues to look like a disaster waiting to happen.

With large-scale applications, having a single point of failure for your Web server or database server is a disaster waiting to happen.

Once the entire banking system had loaded up on mortgage derivatives and credit default swaps, the crisis was just waiting to happen.

More height is more speed, just waiting to happen. You can increase the energy of your swing in two separate ways.

But economist Carsten Brzeski at ING Bank in Brussels says it was a disaster waiting to happen.

Both disasters, the reports concluded, had been accidents waiting to happen.

It was an accident waiting to happen!

Northern Rock was an accident waiting to happen.

As my physical therapist likes to say, "Every step is a tragedy waiting to happen. "

Here goes. . . I really do need to get more consistent with these blogs. . . sounds like a new years resolution waiting to happen.

It can be a migraine waiting to happen, and depending on who you ask, it can even be a form of pollution.

China looks like an accident waiting to happen, in our view.

So to me it's an experiment that's waiting to happen, and if it confirms the prediction then we should have a very powerful tool.

This factual drama tells the story of a devastating disaster waiting to happen. . .

With hindsight, it is clear the structure of the sector in the years before 2007 was an accident waiting to happen.

Builds that don't strictly reduce all underlying assumptions are a disaster waiting to happen.

Everyone of these things is accident waiting to happen.

So you've just seen some eerie lights in the sky, glowing orbs that moved in strange ways. This is a UFO report waiting to happen.

When one grabs too large a slice of the nation's income pie, it usually signals a downturn waiting to happen.

Where there is laughter &comfort, you can bet your ass that the Big Spirit &magic &miracles are all around just waiting to happen.

Our diving corps was developed because Paris's busy, murky waterways are accidents waiting to happen.

This was a disaster waiting to happen.

There are great possibilities patiently waiting to happen for you.

Next Cold War with the new superpowers will be India vs China. They also share a border so it is something just waiting to happen.

It was a disaster waiting to happen.

Residents described the street as previously being "an accident waiting to happen. "

Both sides of the Atlantic were accidents waiting to happen.

Not all May-December relationships are disasters waiting to happen, but most of them are.

Nuclear Power Is an Accident Waiting to Happen.

Might this be a breakthrough waiting to happen?

I gave the broad answer in my column, "Why banking is an accident waiting to happen" (Financial Times, November 27 2007).

Love is an accident waiting to happen.

To believe is to know that wonderful surprises are just waiting to happen, And all our hopes and dreams are within reach.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

Know yourself. . . . if this is a disaster waiting to happen in the food intake department, then sit somewhere else.

The accident waiting to happen has happened.

A lot of the city's buildings are accidents waiting to happen.

If you don't do something yours is a divorce waiting to happen.

You are a disaster waiting to happen over there.

It's called a "self-forging penetrator" (which is a boner joke just waiting to happen).

There is no straightforward way to make the code in Listing 1 thread-safe, making this idiom an accident waiting to happen.

The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen.

An accident waiting to happen?

To believe is to know that wonderful surprises are just waiting to happen.

More height is more speed, just waiting to happen.

But packing so many people into tall buildings is a disaster waiting to happen.

This is a catastrophe waiting to happen again.

Repeat: This is a disaster waiting to happen.

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