VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Accident Waiting To Happen

Meaning:

A dangerous way of setting up or organizing something

Examples:

  • If you ask me, that whole program is an accident waiting to happen.
  • Now, there's an accident waiting to happen.
  • But she's not the only accident waiting to happen.
  • I just think it was an accident waiting to happen.
  • This is just an accident waiting to happen.
  • I told you. You're just an accident waiting to happen.
  • That's just an accident waiting to happen.
  • In other words, an accident waiting to happen?
  • It was an accident waiting to happen, OK?
  • In other words, it is an accident waiting to happen.