Landmine
noun
A bomb hidden underground that explodes when a person or vehicle goes over it.
The soldier was injured by a landmine during the war.
Often appears as...
- step on a landmine
- detect a landmine
noun
A situation or subject that is very sensitive or dangerous to deal with.
Talking about politics at a family dinner can be a landmine.
Often appears as...
- step on a landmine
- avoid the landmine
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
A bomb hidden underground that explodes when a person or vehicle goes over it.
The soldier was injured by a landmine during the war.
Often appears as...
- step on a landmine
- detect a landmine
noun
A situation or subject that is very sensitive or dangerous to deal with.
Talking about politics at a family dinner can be a landmine.
Often appears as...
- step on a landmine
- avoid the landmine
Usage tips
Colloquial
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Pro Tip 1/3Violent Connotation
The word 'landmine' implies sudden, unexpected violence and should be used with sensitivity.
Documentaries about wars often show the devastating effects of landmines.
Pro Tip 2/3War Context
'Landmine' is often associated with wars and conflicts and can evoke strong emotions.
Landmines remain a dangerous legacy in many post-war regions.
Pro Tip 3/3Literal Use
Use 'landmine' literally to describe the actual explosive device, not metaphorically for other dangers.
Farmers sometimes find unexploded landmines in their fields.
Pro Tip 1/3Violent Connotation
The word 'landmine' implies sudden, unexpected violence and should be used with sensitivity.
Documentaries about wars often show the devastating effects of landmines.
Pro Tip 2/3War Context
'Landmine' is often associated with wars and conflicts and can evoke strong emotions.
Landmines remain a dangerous legacy in many post-war regions.
Pro Tip 3/3Literal Use
Use 'landmine' literally to describe the actual explosive device, not metaphorically for other dangers.
Farmers sometimes find unexploded landmines in their fields.
Pro Tip 1/3Violent Connotation
The word 'landmine' implies sudden, unexpected violence and should be used with sensitivity.
Documentaries about wars often show the devastating effects of landmines.
Pro Tip 2/3War Context
'Landmine' is often associated with wars and conflicts and can evoke strong emotions.
Landmines remain a dangerous legacy in many post-war regions.
Pro Tip 3/3Literal Use
Use 'landmine' literally to describe the actual explosive device, not metaphorically for other dangers.
Farmers sometimes find unexploded landmines in their fields.
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Video examples
David Brooks: The social...
whether there was an IED, a landmine, in the street. They couldn't tell you how they did it, but they could feel cold, they felt a coldness, and they were more often right than wrong. The third is what you might call sympathy, the ability to work within groups.
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Jonas Gahr Støre: In...
of engagement and principled dialogue. And I believe we need to strengthen this approach in modern diplomacy, not only between states, but also within states. We are seeing some new signs. We could never have done the convention against anti-personnel landmines
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Tzeporah Berman: The bad...
But what we've learned from studying landmines, what we've learned from studying nuclear, is that the journey matters. Just proposing a fossil fuel treaty is creating new conversations and new climate ambition. A fossil fuel treaty will help us wind down
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Jody Williams: A...
to thousands in 90 countries around the world, working together in common cause to ban landmines. Some of the people who worked in our campaign could only work maybe an hour a month. They could maybe volunteer that much. There were others, like myself,
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Landmine-Sniffing...
elephants can smell landmines like rats and dogs that are used to help demine areas then elephants have a very powerful sense of smell so my hunch is and hen and early evidence suggests that elephants can detect landmines
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These Huge Rats Can...
or his baby as we know that landmines are dangerous for our lives if our odds are able to discover landmines then they save lives I hope that in the future the people of Cambodia will get enough land to - and their life
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How we're saving one of...
every ripple, eddy, lily pad and current any sign of danger, every sign of life. Now imagine millions of sweat bees choking the air around you, flesh-eating bacteria, the constant threat of a landmine going off
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Finding landmines using...
are killed or maimed by landmines each year landmines prevent construction of homes roads schools and hospitals formerly war-torn parts of Africa and Asia feel the impact especially hard because
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Bart Weetjens: How I...
extraordinarily rewarding journey, actually - which brought me into training rats to save human lives by detecting landmines and tuberculosis. As a child, I had two passions.
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How I taught rats to...
lives by detecting landmines and tuberculosis as a child I had two passions one was a passion for rodents I had all kinds of rats mice hamsters
Video examples
David Brooks: The social...
whether there was an IED, a landmine, in the street. They couldn't tell you how they did it, but they could feel cold, they felt a coldness, and they were more often right than wrong. The third is what you might call sympathy, the ability to work within groups.
Video examples
Jonas Gahr Støre: In...
of engagement and principled dialogue. And I believe we need to strengthen this approach in modern diplomacy, not only between states, but also within states. We are seeing some new signs. We could never have done the convention against anti-personnel landmines
Video examples
Tzeporah Berman: The bad...
But what we've learned from studying landmines, what we've learned from studying nuclear, is that the journey matters. Just proposing a fossil fuel treaty is creating new conversations and new climate ambition. A fossil fuel treaty will help us wind down
Video examples
Jody Williams: A...
to thousands in 90 countries around the world, working together in common cause to ban landmines. Some of the people who worked in our campaign could only work maybe an hour a month. They could maybe volunteer that much. There were others, like myself,
Video examples
Landmine-Sniffing...
elephants can smell landmines like rats and dogs that are used to help demine areas then elephants have a very powerful sense of smell so my hunch is and hen and early evidence suggests that elephants can detect landmines
Video examples
These Huge Rats Can...
or his baby as we know that landmines are dangerous for our lives if our odds are able to discover landmines then they save lives I hope that in the future the people of Cambodia will get enough land to - and their life
Video examples
How we're saving one of...
every ripple, eddy, lily pad and current any sign of danger, every sign of life. Now imagine millions of sweat bees choking the air around you, flesh-eating bacteria, the constant threat of a landmine going off
Video examples
Finding landmines using...
are killed or maimed by landmines each year landmines prevent construction of homes roads schools and hospitals formerly war-torn parts of Africa and Asia feel the impact especially hard because
Video examples
Bart Weetjens: How I...
extraordinarily rewarding journey, actually - which brought me into training rats to save human lives by detecting landmines and tuberculosis. As a child, I had two passions.
Video examples
How I taught rats to...
lives by detecting landmines and tuberculosis as a child I had two passions one was a passion for rodents I had all kinds of rats mice hamsters
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Jody Williams
American Activist
Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number of weapons to use in the fighting. It wasn't until they began to think about the aftermath and the legacy of landmines that they recognized the long-term, indiscriminate impact of the weapon.
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Kevin O'Leary
Canadian Businessman
Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.
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Haris Pasovic
Bosniak Director
War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become industries, but nobody looks closely at human greed, at the arms industry and the manufacture of landmines. Art has to take a wider view. The problems of Ireland are my problems, too.
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Iranian Director
The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.
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Tim O'Brien
American Author
Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a housewife, and by night the housewife may be helping to make landmines and booby traps and who knows.
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Ryan Giggs
Welsh Athlete
As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.
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Seth Moulton
American Politician
There's simply no reason for a civilian to own a military-style assault weapon. It's no different than why we outlaw civilian ownership of rockets and landmines.
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Ray Bradbury
American Writer
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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Sebastian Coe
British Politician
Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.
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Ban Ki-moon
South Korean Leader
The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.
Quote examples
Jody Williams
American Activist
Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number of weapons to use in the fighting. It wasn't until they began to think about the aftermath and the legacy of landmines that they recognized the long-term, indiscriminate impact of the weapon.
Quote examples
Kevin O'Leary
Canadian Businessman
Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.
Quote examples
Haris Pasovic
Bosniak Director
War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become industries, but nobody looks closely at human greed, at the arms industry and the manufacture of landmines. Art has to take a wider view. The problems of Ireland are my problems, too.
Quote examples
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Iranian Director
The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.
Quote examples
Tim O'Brien
American Author
Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a housewife, and by night the housewife may be helping to make landmines and booby traps and who knows.
Quote examples
Ryan Giggs
Welsh Athlete
As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.
Quote examples
Seth Moulton
American Politician
There's simply no reason for a civilian to own a military-style assault weapon. It's no different than why we outlaw civilian ownership of rockets and landmines.
Quote examples
Ray Bradbury
American Writer
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
Quote examples
Sebastian Coe
British Politician
Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.
Quote examples
Ban Ki-moon
South Korean Leader
The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.
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