English-Spanish translations for time bomb

• bomba de relojería
  Estamos ante una bomba de relojería financiera que ya está en marcha. There is a financial time bomb ticking away.
  Hemos de ocuparnos de la bomba de relojería de las pensiones. We need to deal with the pension time bomb.
  Bien, todos sabemos qué hay que hacer con una bomba de relojería: desconectarla. Well, we all know what we need to do with a time bomb: we need to defuse it.

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
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• antimetabole