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Sword of Damocles   /sɔrd əv dˈæməklˌiz/   Listen
Sword of Damocles

noun
1.
A constant and imminent peril.





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"Sword of Damocles" Quotes from Famous Books



... by his more resolute colleagues. I believe also, as I have already said, that the weakness of his position was engendered by the unforgettable mistake he made in regard to the sale of his estate—that he felt this was held over him as a sword of Damocles, and that he was never able to get away from its haunting shadow sufficiently to assert his own authority in the manner of an ...
— Ireland Since Parnell • Daniel Desmond Sheehan


Words linked to "Sword of Damocles" :   peril, jeopardy, risk, endangerment, hazard


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