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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(historical) A small container containing flint, steel, and tinder (dry, finely-divided fibrous matter), once used to help kindle a fire..
Haines helped himself and snapped the case to. He put it back in his sidepocket and took from his waistcoatpocket a nickel tinderbox, sprang it open too, and, having lit his cigarette, held the flaming spunk towards Stephen in the shell of his hands.
Just bring me the old tinderbox that my grandmother forgot the last time she went down there.
And then came the night that made America famous / Was it carelessness or someone's sick idea of a joke? / In the tinderbox trap that we hippies lived in, someone struck a spark
Think of your blank journal as a tinderbox, a box for holding combustible materials, ready to catch fire when you sit down to work.
This act was the "match that ignited the great tinderbox of fuel" that had been building for years between many of the countries in Europe.
Use tinder box when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tinder box means (historical) A small container containing flint, steel, and tinder (dry, finely-divided fibrous matter), once used to help kindle a fire..
Common synonyms include powder keg, powderkeg, powder magazine.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Haines helped himself and snapped the case to. He put it back in his sidepocket and took from his waistcoatpocket a nickel tinderbox, sprang it open too, and, having lit his cigarette, held the flaming spunk towards Stephen in the shell of his hands.
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