English-Portuguese translations for time bomb

• bomba-relógio
  Quanto a mim, estamos perante uma bomba-relógio. This, to me, is the ticking time bomb.
  Os ponteiros de uma bomba-relógio financeira continuam a avançar. There is a financial time bomb ticking away.
  Temos de lidar com a bomba-relógio das pensões da segurança social.We need to deal with the pension time bomb.

Definition of time bomb

• A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time
• A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time

Related words

• time box
• part time labour
• about time
• bonus time
• airborne time
• labour time
• timebox
• timeboxing
• antimetabole