THESAURUS
sword of damocles
bulldozing, chanciness, commination, criticalness, delicacy, denunciation, doubtfulness, dubiousness, empty threat, foreboding, hazardousness, idle threat, imminence, implied threat, insecurity, instability, intimidation, menace, perilousness, precariousness, promise of harm, riskiness, shakiness, slipperiness, threat, threateningness, threatfulness, ticklish business, ticklishness, totteriness, touchiness, uncertainty, undependability, unhealthiness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsafeness, unsoundness, unsteadiness, unsureness, untrustworthiness, warning
ROGET THESAURUS
sword of damocles
Pitfall
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pitfall, rocks, reefs, coral reef, sunken rocks, snags, sands, quicksands, syrt, syrtis, Goodwin sands, sandy foundation, slippery ground, breakers, shoals, shallows, bank, shelf, flat, lee shore, ironbound coast, rock ahead, breakers ahead, precipice, maelstrom, volcano, ambush, pitfall, trapdoor, trap, sword of Damocles, wolf at the door, snake in the grass, death in the pot, latency, ugly customer, dangerous person, le chat qui dort, firebrand, hornet's nest, latet anquis in herba, proximus ardet Ucalegon.
