'sword of Damocles' definitions:
Definition of 'sword of Damocles'
(from WordNet)
noun
A constant and imminent peril; "the possibility hangs over their heads like the sword of Damocles"
Synonyms of 'sword of Damocles'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bulldozing,
- chanciness,
- commination,
- criticalness,
- delicacy,
- denunciation,
- doubtfulness,
- dubiousness,
- empty threat,
- foreboding,
- hazardousness,
- idle threat,
- imminence,
- implied threat,
- insecurity,
- instability,
- intimidation,
- menace,
- perilousness,
- precariousness,
- promise of harm,
- riskiness,
- shakiness,
- slipperiness,
- threat,
- threateningness,
- threatfulness,
- ticklish business,
- ticklishness,
- totteriness,
- touchiness,
- uncertainty,
- undependability,
- unhealthiness,
- unpredictability,
- unreliability,
- unsafeness,
- unsoundness,
- unsteadiness,
- unsureness,
- untrustworthiness,
- warning