Usually means: Situation extremely precarious, nearly failing.
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  1. hangs by a thread: Vocabulary.com
  2. hangs by a thread: Wiktionary
  3. hangs by a thread: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hangs by a thread: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hangs by a thread: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hangs by a thread: Idioms



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