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sword of damocles is a noun meaning "a constant and imminent peril". It carries one recorded sense.
a constant and imminent peril
“the possibility hangs over their heads like the sword of Damocles”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sword of damocles come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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