an accident waiting to happen
Definition
› a very dangerous situation in which an accident is very likelyAccidents and disastersDifficult situations and unpleasant experiencesFailuresPotentialHoping and hopefulness
(Definition of an accident waiting to happen from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Abstaining and refraining
- Acting and acts
- Avoiding action
- Becoming better
- Cancelling and interrupting
- Competing and contending (non-sporting)
- Coping and not coping
- Delaying and wasting time
- Describing the leading position
- Efficient and effective
- Expressions telling people to hurry up
- Failing and doing badly
- Failures
- Getting involved for one's own benefit or against others' will
- Hesitating
- Higher and lower points of achievement
- Hurrying and doing things quickly
- Making progress and advancing
- Making things better
- Performing a function
- Reacting and responding
- Repeating an action
- Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- Success and achievements
- Successful (things or people)
- Surpassing in quality or number
- Taking part and getting involved
- Trying and making an effort
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Synonyms and related words:
- auspicious adjective
- be an actor, cook, etc. in the making idiom
- budding adjective
- embryo noun
- fertile ground for sth idiom
- have (all) the makings of sth idiom
- potential adjective
- potential noun
- potentiality noun
- potentially adverb
- promise noun (EXPECTED)
- promising adjective
- prospect noun (POSSIBILITY)
- realizable adjective (CAN ACHIEVE)
- room for improvement idiom
- rosy adjective
- sleeper noun (SUDDEN ACTIVITY)
- untapped adjective
- viable adjective
- vista noun
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