Damoclean
- a word derived from Damocles.
Example Sentences
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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
BBC3 With the Damoclean threat of BBC funding cuts being waved above Auntie's channels and stations, this new-talent comedy seems just the kind of show it should be investing in to justify its existence.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2010
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
Damoclean, dam-ō-clē′an, adj. like Damocles, flatterer of Dionysius of Syracuse, taught the insecurity of happiness by being made to sit through the feast with a sword suspended by a single hair over his head.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
