How to pronounce “light the touch-paper”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (figuratively) To stir people up; to cause anger or excitement.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

light it up, lighted up, litmus paper, little shop, literatus, potato chip, literately, bite the dust, alliterative, set the pace