be a recipe for disaster, trouble, success, etc.
C2 to be very likely to become a disaster, success, etc.:
All those children unsupervised sounds to me like a recipe for disaster.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Origins and sources
- beginning
- birthplace
- born
- breeding ground
- come from somewhere/sth
- derivation
- fount
- genesis
- hail from somewhere
- issue
- issue from sth
- origin
- root
- seed
- son
- source
- stem
- stem from sth
- the cradle of sth idiom
- ur-
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