1. Depend on a small thing or be at risk
   "His life now hangs by a thread"
   - hang by a hair

Derived forms: hung by a thread, hanging by a thread, hangs by a thread

Type of: depend

• Sir Stephen Harold Spender
• Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan
• Sir Thomas Gresham
• Sir Thomas Lawrence
• Sir Thomas Malory
• Sir Thomas More
• Sir Thomas Raffles
• Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
• Sir Thomas Wyat
• Sir Thomas Wyatt
• Sir Tim Rice
• Sir Tom Stoppard
• Sir Walter Norman Haworth
• Sir Walter Ralegh
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Sir Walter Scott
• Sir William Alexander Craigie
• Sir William Chambers
• Sir William Crookes
• Sir William Gerald Golding
• Sir William Gilbert
• Sir William Herschel
• Sir William Huggins
• Sir William Rowan Hamilton
• immoveable