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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Assuming an entirely possible unfamiliarity with the basics of textiles, needlecraft, weaving and so on it could be that, should your hopes be threatened, you describe them as hanging by a threat.
Our hopes and dreams hang by a threat, strong yet vulnerable, shaken by the winds set by provocateurs, criminals and assassins, ...
Manchester United’s hopes of signing Raphael Varane this summer hang by a threat after reports emerged that the Real Madrid centre-back is …
But the fact is, that package that we passed last year that hung by a threat—if we’d had one less vote in the Senate, we would not have …
... to reimpose a 14-day quarantine is a massive blow to Spain’s holiday season, which was hanging by a threat even before the announcement.
Well I dreamt I fell into your web, and stuck around
But now I’m hanging by a fret, and it’s a long way down
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Ooh, good one. And I think that only you would think to look for “hang by a fret”, Peter. Damocles certainly had reason to fret, sort of.
Last edited by David Bird (2022-09-09 07:42:00)
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I get the picture of the web-stuck victim hanging by his fingernails onto the fret of a vertically-positioned guitar. Which, as you note, Tocayo, is reason to fret, sort of.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2022-09-09 10:51:24)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Good one.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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