thunderflash
/ˈθʌndəflaʃ
/noun
A noisy but harmless pyrotechnic device used especially in military exercises.We managed to scare the bear away using 30 mm rubber bullets and thunderflashes - a kind of pyrotechnic or firework....
- Or all three so we had to back it up with firing off a thunderflash from a hand pistol.
- By 1 pm at the latest, the MPs were dead and though a British army Chinook, dropping thunderflashes and possibly firing, had arrived, it was too late.
- in that event
- in the abstract
- in the act of
- in the affirmative
- in (the) aggregate
- in the air
- in the altogether
- in the ascendant
- in the bag
- in the balance
- in the belief that
- in the blink of an eye (or in a blink)
- in the box seat
- in the buff
- in the business of
- in the cactus
- in the can
- in the cart
- in the catbird seat
- in the cause of
- in the clear
- in the clouds
- in the club (or the pudding club)
- in the clutch
- in the cold light of day