火fo2藥joek6味mei6

English

1. smell of gunpowder
2. the smell of gunpowder; a sense of tension during a heated argument
3. tension; powder keg; literally: the smell of gunpowder
4. (fig.) combative tone
5. belligerence

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 互相敵視、各不相讓嘅氣氛

Examples

• 火藥味好重

  extremely tensed atmosphere; literally, really intense scent of gunpowder

• 佢兩個之間有啲火藥味。

  The situation between the two of them is a powder keg.

• 當煙花嘅聲音停止爆發嗰陣，個區域突然變得安靜。 留低嘅火藥味令我感到感傷。

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