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Definition of Hang by a thread
1. Verb. Depend on a small thing or be at risk. "His life now hangs by a thread"
Definition of Hang by a thread
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To be in danger, calling for precise caution; to be in a precarious situation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hang By A Thread
Literary usage of Hang by a thread
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1905)
"Their financial lives hang by a thread. The youthful depositor, who milices a
weekly deposit of $[,000,000000, refuses to tell how he got the gold, ..."
2. A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the by Frank Brinkley, Dairoku Kikuchi (1915)
"... interview with the premier, li, whose life seemed at that time to hang by a
thread, but who, nevertheless, advanced unflinchingly towards his goal. ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1872)
"In this he is quite right; the lives of diabetics seem to hang by a thread, and
any sudden change of diet or forced exercise, even though it be only a ..."
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