- a variation of landmine.
land mine
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The market will sort thought which software vendors can stand strong and which will fall, leaving the sector somewhat of a land mine.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
The chorus—“This land’s your land / This land mine too / Is this all true, man? / Or is it just bad news?”—summarizes how little it has to say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
He said “stepping up monitoring and preparedness” is needed to avoid “triggering the land mine into a full-scale pandemic.”
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2025
The Dodgers’ injury-ravaged bullpen had been lurking like a land mine in recent weeks.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2024
And for some crazy reason, I became absolutely certain that it had been Ali’s right leg—his twisted polio leg—that had finally betrayed him and stepped on that land mine.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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