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.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
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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