Dropping a lit match in a dry forest is a bad idea even when that particular match doesn't happen to catch fire.
I'm sure you studied this metaphors a lot over the years, but that wasn't a match in a dry forest, it was the image of a match in a dry forest with the label "this is not how you should do it"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
Dropping a lit match in a dry forest is a bad idea even when that particular match doesn't happen to catch fire.