Usually means: Impending danger hanging precariously overhead.
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  1. sword of Damocles: Merriam-Webster
  2. sword of Damocles: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sword of Damocles: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. sword of Damocles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sword of Damocles: Wiktionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (sword of Damocles)

▸ noun:  A thing or situation which causes a prolonged state of impending doom or misfortune.

Similar:
doom, time bomb, death grip, danger signal, death knell, menace, peril, death sentence, death spiral, jaws of death, more...

Opposite:
security, safety, certainty

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Similar:
doom, time bomb, death grip, danger signal, death knell, menace, peril, death sentence, death spiral, jaws of death, more...

Opposite:
security, safety, certainty



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