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Phrase: A recipe for disaster
Some people are excellent cooks, and some people are terrible cooks.
Very rarely, however, has someone died from lousy cooking unless the situation involved a recipe for disaster.
There are moments you look at what someone is doing and say, ‘That is not going to work out well.’
In other words, you can look at what they are doing and intuitively know that it is a recipe for disaster.
When you say that something is a recipe for disaster, you mean that trouble will occur or something very undesirable will happen.
If we take the above picture as an example, we can immediately tell that this situation is not right.
There are multiple possible scenarios, and none of them is ideal.
We have a car, a bottle of beer, an opener, and an idiot.
It just screams recipe for disaster.
Right now, outside the car, there is a big red neon sign flashing over his head.
The best thing that could happen is the guy falls asleep before he can drive away.
The second worst is he drives away and is stopped by the police before he hurts somebody.
Of course, there will be a substantial fine.
Then, he will lose his driver’s license, and the car may be impounded.
To top it off, he could lose his job, and his wife or girlfriend would be furious.
Then again, he may be drinking because his better half is already mad at him, but that is a different can of worms, which is better left for another day.
The worst-case scenario that can arise from this recipe for disaster is that this guy drinks, drives, injures, or, god forbid, kills someone.
The moral of the story is if you have a recipe for disaster, don’t start cooking.
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