"light the blue touchpaper" meaning in English

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      "form": "lights the blue touchpaper",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "lighting the blue touchpaper",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lit the blue touchpaper",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lit the blue touchpaper",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lighted the blue touchpaper",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lighted the blue touchpaper",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "light<,,lit:lighted> the blue touchpaper"
      },
      "expansion": "light the blue touchpaper (third-person singular simple present lights the blue touchpaper, present participle lighting the blue touchpaper, simple past and past participle lit the blue touchpaper or lighted the blue touchpaper)",
      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 April 17, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 4-3 Tottenham Hotsput”, in BBC News",
          "text": "Sterling lit the blue touchpaper on a thunderous atmosphere when he curled in a precision finish from the edge of the area after only four minutes, but Spurs responded with a double from Son Heung-min as he took advantage of errors by Aymeric Laporte.",
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        "Synonym of light the touch-paper"
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        [
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          "light the touch-paper#English"
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        "(idiomatic) Synonym of light the touch-paper"
      ],
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  "word": "light the blue touchpaper"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lights the blue touchpaper",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lighting the blue touchpaper",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lit the blue touchpaper",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lit the blue touchpaper",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lighted the blue touchpaper",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lighted the blue touchpaper",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "light<,,lit:lighted> the blue touchpaper"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
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          "ref": "2019 April 17, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 4-3 Tottenham Hotsput”, in BBC News",
          "text": "Sterling lit the blue touchpaper on a thunderous atmosphere when he curled in a precision finish from the edge of the area after only four minutes, but Spurs responded with a double from Son Heung-min as he took advantage of errors by Aymeric Laporte.",
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        }
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        "Synonym of light the touch-paper"
      ],
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        [
          "light the touch-paper",
          "light the touch-paper#English"
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        "(idiomatic) Synonym of light the touch-paper"
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