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The prospect of a Super League has been the great Damoclean threat hanging over European soccer for the better part of two decades.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2021
It’s not until the end of the afternoon that Thom addresses the question that has been hanging over the vast exhibition hall, the Damoclean slice.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2017
These facts and these questions now forever hang over their heads, Damoclean in their import.
From The Guardian ● May 12, 2015
But it is not just the case that the U.S. and China are locked in an inextricable economic embrace along the edge of a "Damoclean precipice"—another fashionable phrase within the Treasury.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 26, 2010
The Damoclean sword is a fine incident for poetry; but Holofernes was no Damocles, and if he had been, it were intolerable to cast his experience in bronze.
From Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton
