the fat is in the fire
-in-waiting
imminency
forthcomingness
impendence
impendency
imminently
imminentness
imminence
bebother
fisherman's soup
get one's tits in a wringer
soonly
ten to one
then
lock horns
ultimate
on the boil
fighting
toil
about to
already
sooner rather than later
onslaught
impending
close at hand
pressure point
impendent
imminent
at hand
meta-
last-minute
to hell in a handbasket
any day now
around the corner
cooking
proximate
in no time
quickly
come
troublous
any minute now
in for it
abyss
faster than a minnow can swim a dipper
in a minute
mutinous
in it
in the soup
gnaw someone's vitals