| 释义 |
> as lemmassword of Damocles sword of Damocles n. (also Damocles' sword) used by simile of an imminent danger, which may at any moment descend upon one. Damocles, a flatterer, having extolled the happiness of Dionysius tyrant of Syracuse, was placed by him at a banquet with a sword suspended over his head by a hair, to impress upon him the perilous nature of that happiness.< |