damocles in English

noun
1
a legendary courtier who extravagantly praised the happiness of Dionysius I, ruler of Syracuse. To show him how precarious this happiness was, Dionysius seated him at a banquet with a sword hung by a single hair over his head.

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1. Damocles will enter the airspace of the United States of China... and then switch over to secondary acceleration.

2. * It seemed as if the proverbial sword of Damocles would be hanging over me for the rest of my life.

3. Agflation, I am convinced, will be world history’s next game changer, an ominous sword of Damocles over the poorest citizens of the global village

4. Financial Problems - "For almost all governments public finance is the Damocles sword hanging over the heads of political leaders and threatening their capacity to govern."

5. Courtier: 1 n an attendant at the court of a sovereign Examples: show 4 examples hide 4 examples Damocles 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

6. Definition of arête : a sharp-crested ridge in rugged mountains Examples of arête in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web The harder test piece, the Sword of Damocles, follows a sloping right Arete (corner) and requires a huge jump to the top lip.