idioms
Is there an idiom or expression in English to describe a situation where a bad situation is not fully or correctly resolved and it can happen again, may be even worse.
For example, when talking about people's feeling/wrath regarding the government that recently suppressed their protests instead of answering to their requests. in such a situation, in Persian, we say people are fire under the ashes.
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This phrase is pretty old. And not in very common usage with the youth. Though I might occasionally say "I was burning the midnight oil last night", I would certainly prefer the phrase "I/We pulled and all-nighter". Note the grammar requires the use of an and all-nighter is non plural (feels weird quoting grammar usage for a slang phrase).
The origins of the phrase are not conclusive, but perhaps pertain to poetry uses meaning to need an oil lamp burning past midnight to complete work 1, or the burning of old holy oils the night before new ones are consecrated 2.
Fully Qualified means that whatever it is has all the qualifications which are applicable. This could mean a qualification such as an FQDN has:
qualified adjective
2 not complete or absolute; limited
That is, a fully-qualified domain name is limited to a specific domain, and that limitation in scope is sufficiently stringent to make it unambiguous.
But they could be academic or vocational qualifications:
qualified adjective
1 officially recognized as being trained to perform a particular job; certified
In these cases one would not talk of an "unambiguous carpenter".
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The verb smoulder is, correspondingly, often used metaphorically here.
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(The literal definition is 'to burn slowly ... without flames'.)