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