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单词 hang by a thread
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hang by a thread

If a serious situation hangs by a thread, it means that even a slight change can decide what will happen and that a bad result such as death, failure, etc. is likely:

The mayor's political future has been hanging by a thread since the fraud scandal.

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Unsafe and insecure

  • at stake idiom
  • be on the line idiom
  • day
  • endangered
  • exposed
  • indefensible
  • insecure
  • jeopardy
  • precarious
  • precariously
  • shadow
  • sketchy
  • stake
  • struggle
  • threat
  • unattended
  • unbalanced
  • unguarded
  • unsafe
  • unstable

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