sword of Damocles

It's been hanging over my head like the sword of Damocles.

"This sword of Damocles is still hanging over us," he said.

Because this way, these things don't hang like a sword of Damocles at every high level meeting.

Such sales remain a sword of Damocles over the gold market.

It really is his sword of Damocles at the moment.

Having once held the sword of Damocles, he did not want to see it raised again.

"The sword of Damocles hanging over their heads, to make them remember."

Many will go through life feeling as if the sword of Damocles hangs over their heads.

For the first time, since the sword of Damocles had fallen, she was alone with her thoughts.

"It's like a sword of Damocles hanging over my head," she said.