hang by a thread

不绝于耳不绝如缕悬而未决悬空

hang by a thread 的定义

  1. Also, hang by a hair. Be in a risky or unstable situation, as in His promotion was hanging by a thread, or With the lead actor sick, the success of our play hung by a hair. This expression, already proverbial in the early 1500s, alludes to Damocles, who vexed King Dionysius with constant flattery. The king invited him to a banquet where Damocles found himself seated under a naked sword suspended by a single hair, symbolizing his insecure position at the court.

hang by a thread 近义词

hang by a thread

等同于 risk

更多hang by a thread例句

  1. They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.
  2. ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
  3. You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
  4. It was getting to create jokes at the source, and to get to hang out with comedians.
  5. Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
  6. All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
  7. Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
  8. He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
  9. All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.
  10. John was baptizing at a large pool called Ænon-by-Saleim,—probably allegorical, meaning “Fountain of Repose.”