towering inferno
English
Noun
towering inferno (plural towering infernos)
- (poetic) A tall fire, as of a building.
- We fed the campfire until it became a towering inferno before us.
- 2003, Beth Reiber, Frommer's Hong Kong
- [T]he most compelling argument for avoiding Chungking Mansion is one of safety — it could be a towering inferno waiting to happen.
- A powerful, untamed force.
- 2000, Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind's Past:
- [A]nyone saying now that humans are a towering inferno of irrationality ought to be challenged, and aggressively so.
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