sword of Damocles
If you have a sword of Damocles hanging over you/your head, something bad seems very likely to happen to you:
The threat of a cut in funding is hanging over the Opera House like a sword of Damocles.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Fate and destiny
- Damocles
- destined
- destiny
- fatalism
- fate
- ill-fated
- ill-starred
- in the lap of the gods idiom
- jinx
- lap
- lightning
- lightning never strikes twice idiom
- lot
- predestination
- predestined
- preordain
- providence
- providential
- write
- written in the stars idiom
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