the sword of Damocles

the sword of Damocles

• 达摩克利斯剑(喻指临头的危险，传说叙拉古暴君迪奥尼修斯邀达摩克利斯饮宴时在其头顶用细线悬一出鞘之剑，以表示大权在握者常朝不保夕，正如达摩克利斯当时之处境)[见sword]

• pipe bit
• adapt (oneself) to
• in orders
• blastema
• Viennese
• Trinidadian and Tobagonian
• on the tip of one's (或 the) tongue
• roset
• emparadises
• foot it
• Message of the President
• entailer
• machiavellians
• satoris
• specifically
• loveless
• sulphadiazine
• only half the story
• plunge sb/sth into sth
• drop arm
• luminous efficiency
• honeydew melons
• Spanish onion
• Martin,Saint
• fluidic technology
• straight chair
• ethn.
• hippier
• mammal
• tensimeters
• Luth.
• climatron
• zero-base budgeting
• polygenists
• get the short end of the stick
• minimum normal burst altitude
• acraspedote
• mark something down
• gestation periods
• Chagga
• specific dynamic effect
• palm crab
• Biblicism
• overmatches
• pretty well / much
• avail someone nothing
• deculturating
• ambisinistrous
• sky-ship
• intrazonal. soil
• sophocless
• fantasists
• have an antipathy against
• interruptor
• full as a tick
• Ashkenazi
• shake-table test
• make a spring
• car
• roll-on
• duck squeezer
• Altaians
• cardiographies
• round to
• Mansfield, Katherine
• welch
• predestinated
• lenience
• propitiative
• homogeneous chemical reaction
• expectances
• word processors
• sleep with one eye open
• conflict behaviour
• trovers
• underletter
• Spirillospora
• intermediation
• forehand welding
• Genevieve
• synovial joints
• up against the wall
• execrative
• X-ray telescope
• Girling
• stand together
• histographically
• intercardinal heading
• lipid histiocytosis
• petzite
• snow course
• hyperthyroid
• carlishness
• draisine
• flow over with
• saloon car
• action of trespass
• of great (或 high) promise
• monocontaminating
• advise against