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by a thread
Idioms and Phrases
see hang by a thread .Example Sentences
"Donald Trump's agenda is hanging by a thread," Shapiro said.
While American democracy dangles by a thread and the stock market has a horrible time, I draw comfort from knowing my financial fortunes aren’t any better or worse than most other people’s.
But, like Babs Dionne’s, Rhoda’s family is hanging by a thread.
The season was hanging by a thread a few minutes later as Yates knifed through a crowd of Rutgers defenders.
And not in some soulless, focus-grouped, “defending democracy” kind of way — they did it with humor, grit and the kind of battlefield sarcasm that comes from knowing your country’s survival is hanging by a thread.
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