Damocles - definition, transcription
Amer.
|ˈdæməkliːz|
Brit.
|ˈdæməkliːz|
noun
- 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) (syn: damocles)
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The treaty hung like a sword of Damocles over French politics.
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