Tickle the dragon's tail

Verb

Definitions

1.VerbTo do something that has a risk of going catastrophically wrong.

"Climbing so close to an erupting volcano was tickling the dragon's tail."

2.VerbTo annoy an irritable person.

"Don't tell him the headline's misprinted; you don't want to tickle the dragon's tail."

3.VerbTo bring two subcritical masses close together in order to find the edge of criticality.

"The laboratory head tickles the dragon's tail whenever we have guests as a show of machismo."

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