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Sword of Damocles – English Idioms & Expressions

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Sword of Damocles 

Sword of Damocles

 If you have a sword of Damocles hanging over you/your head, something bad seems very likely to happen to you, something that threatens to cause imminent disaster, a bad and disastrous event that might occur anytime:

The treaty hung like a sword of Damocles over the French politics.

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Fa: موقعیت خطرناک

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