| 词组 | cling on on by fingernails |
| 释义 | Idiom cling on on by fingernailscling on/hang on by (your) fingernails if you are clinging on by your fingernails, you are only just managing to avoid danger or failure.We're hanging on by our fingernails and hoping that it rains before we lose our entire crop. (usually in continuous tenses)cling on by (one's) fingernails1. Literally, to grasp something, such as a cliff, with one's fingernails to avoid falling. The stranded hiker was clinging on by her fingernails until the rescue crew arrived. 2. By extension, to narrowly avoid problems or failure. They're clinging on by their fingernails out there—the other team's offensive is totally overwhelming them. Now that I have three small children to care for, I feel as if I'm clinging on by my fingernails every day. |
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