tickle the dragon's tail (English, verb)
expansion: tickle the dragon's tail (third-person singular simple present tickles the dragon's tail, present participle tickling the dragon's tail, simple past and past participle tickled the dragon's tail)
Senses:
glosses: To do something that has a risk of going catastrophically wrong.
tags: idiomatic
glosses: To annoy an irritable person.
tags: idiomatic
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: To bring two subcritical masses close together in order to find the edge of criticality.
Forms:
form: tickles the dragon's tail
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tickling the dragon's tail
tags: participle
present
form: tickled the dragon's tail
tags: participle
past
form: tickled the dragon's tail
tags: past