Timeline for Idiom: Unknown, hidden problems
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| Feb 26, 2016 at 14:56 | comment | added | Papa Poule | @DCShannon Thanks and that’s a great point! I probably should have included “forgotten” somewhere to cover your point that the damage caused to unsuspecting victims of forgotten land mines/minefields left over from long-past conflicts is unintentional . | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 2:40 | comment | added | DCShannon | +1 for mines and minefields. These days, mines tend to damage civilians they were never intended to harm more than anyone else. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 23:24 | history | edited | Papa Poule | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
to add the more natural "quicksand" suggestion
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| Feb 25, 2016 at 20:44 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @CSJ The 'man-made and intended to harm' connotation is very slight nowadays (though perhaps not as slight as an 'evil polyp' connotation). But the 'resulting from man's ways of doing things' connotation (political minefield; tax minefield; legal minefield ...) persists. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 20:23 | comment | added | CSJ | We considered mines/minefields. There's a key difference: mines are, as you say, designed to be dangerous. Reefs are natural occurrences with no ill intent, but nevertheless deadly if poked the wrong way. Technology problems are not planted on purpose (as far as we know!) | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 20:14 | history | answered | Papa Poule | CC BY-SA 3.0 |