Similar words: sword of damocles, sophocles, monocle, diocletian, cardamon, cardamom, pericles, ecclesia. Meaning: ['dæməkliːz] 
n. the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC).
n. the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC). 
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(1) The treaty hung like a sword of Damocles over French politics.
(2) Still Damocles worried and pecked, coated with blood and frantic with an apparently unquenchable desire to kill and kill again.
(3) SEE Sword of Damocles Subforum for more information.
(4) The author holds that information disclosure is the Damocles sword of franchising.
(5) Unemployment, like the sword of Damocles, was always accompanying the workers.
(6) Rear guard line Chief Saneidi with Damocles , Heinze will compose three guards the partners.
(7) Damocles loved wealth and pleasure and envied the life of his master.
(8) That is like the sword of Damocles over his head.
(9) Secondary mortgage loan becomes the sword of damocles which hung on the top of American finance market.
(10) Sword of Damocles , originated from the Greek legend of Damocles is the tyrant Dionysius Ist of Syracuse (formerly 430-367) of the minions.
(11) The shadow of death like a sword of Damocles, may descend at any moment.
(12) Secondary mortgage loan becomes the sword of damocles the top of American finance market.
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(14) The possibility of losing her job hung over her like a sword of Damocles all last year.
(15) Government threats to cut the budget by 50% are hanging over the Opera House like a sword of Damocles.
(16) Indeed, a winged dagger was the S.A.S. badge, originally conceived, it is said, as the sword of Damocles.
(17) It's been hanging over my head like the sword of Damocles.
(18) For consumers, this is hanging over their heads on the sword of Damocles.
(19) The likelihood of lay - offs has been a sword of Damocles over the department for months.
(20) But fitting Israeli equipment to a Saudi fighter is a nonstarter, so the British have opted to use the Damocles.
(21) The college entrance examination is like a sword of Damocles.
(22) As a Grand Prix driver, you have the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head at every moment.
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