light the blue touchpaper
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editlight the blue touchpaper (third-person singular simple present lights the blue touchpaper, present participle lighting the blue touchpaper, simple past and past participle lit the blue touchpaper or lighted the blue touchpaper)
- (idiomatic) Synonym of light the touch-paper
- 2019 April 17, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 4-3 Tottenham Hotsput”, in BBC News[1]:
- Sterling lit the blue touchpaper on a thunderous atmosphere when he curled in a precision finish from the edge of the area after only four minutes, but Spurs responded with a double from Son Heung-min as he took advantage of errors by Aymeric Laporte.