damocles
61sword of Damocles — noun a constant and imminent peril the possibility hangs over their heads like the sword of Damocles • Hypernyms: ↑hazard, ↑jeopardy, ↑peril, ↑risk, ↑endangerment …
62sword of Damocles. — See Damocles (def. 2). [1810 20] …
63sword of Damocles — Usage: often capitalized S Date: 1820 an impending disaster …
64sword of Damocles — noun A thing or situation which causes a prolonged state of impending doom or misfortune …
65sword of Damocles — Synonyms and related words: bulldozing, chanciness, commination, criticalness, delicacy, denunciation, doubtfulness, dubiousness, empty threat, foreboding, hazardousness, idle threat, imminence, implied threat, insecurity, instability,… …
66sword of Damocles — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun One regarded as an imminent danger: menace, threat. Idiom: clear and present danger. See SAFETY …
67Sword of Damocles — fable representing danger in a battle, threat, fear …
68sword of Damocles — sword′ of Dam′ocles n. cvb any situation threatening imminent harm or disaster • Etymology: 1810–20 …
69ДАМОКЛ — • Damŏcles, Δαμοκλη̃ς, любимец Дионисия Старшего. который, чтобы показать Д. наглядным образом непрочность и опасность земного величия, повесил над его головою меч, когда он сидел за роскошным обедом при самой богатой и блестящей… …
70Mercenary (video game) — Mercenary Developer(s) Novagen Software Designer(s) Paul Woakes (code, conc …