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sword of damo·cles
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sword of Damoclesnoun
a constant and imminent peril
"the possibility hangs over their heads like the sword of Damocles"
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We need to find an equitable sharing of the risk of the Finland project, which is a sword of Damocles that has weighed on the group for a long time and which can compromise any future scenario.
We will have the sword of Damocles hanging over us until the election next November.
A lot of folks think that impeachment is this mechanical process and that when the president commits high crimes and misdemeanors, [ it ] just falls out of the sky like some kind of sword of Damocles, i'm here to tell you that it doesn't. Congress has to decide whether impeachment is the right move.
I've never encountered a situation like this, i felt like there was a sword of Damocles over me for the year.
Having a sword of Damocles having over Assad's head is not necessarily a bad thing.
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