sword of Damocles as a noun: - 1
sword of Damocles
noun
1 sword of Damocles
A constant and imminent peril.
Polish: miecz Damoklesowy, miecz Damoklesa
Roget 667:
rocks,
reefs,
coral reef,
sunken rocks,
snags;
sands,
quicksands;
syrt†,
syrtis†;
Goodwin sands,
sandy foundation;
slippery ground;
breakers,
shoals,
shallows,
bank,
shelf,
flat,
lee shore,
ironbound coast;
rock ahead,
breakers ahead.
precipice;
maelstrom,
volcano;
ambush
etc.
530;
pitfall,
trapdoor;
trap
etc.
(snare)
545.
sword of Damocles;
wolf at the door,
snake in the grass,
death in the pot;
latency
etc.
526.
ugly customer,
dangerous person,
le chat qui dort [Fr.];
firebrand,
hornet's nest.
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Moby thesaurus: bulldozing, chanciness, commination, criticalness, delicacy, denunciation, doubtfulness, dubiousness, empty threat, foreboding, hazardousness, idle threat, imminence, implied threat, insecurity, instability, intimidation, menace, perilousness, precariousness, promise of harm, riskiness, shakiness, slipperiness, threat, threateningness, threatfulness, ticklish business, ticklishness, totteriness, touchiness, uncertainty, undependability, unhealthiness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsafeness, unsoundness, unsteadiness, unsureness, untrustworthiness, warning ... show more.
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