Powder keg is also used in literature as in the lyrics of Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart: "We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks".
The "Powder keg of Europe", sometimes alternately known as the "Balkan Powder Keg", refers to the Balkans in the early part of the 20th century preceding World War I.
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