damocles

İngilizce - Türkçe

damocles teriminin İngilizce Türkçe sözlükte anlamı: {i} Demokles [mit.]; (isim) Demokles [mit.]; Demokles
sword of Damocles: Demokles'in kılıcı
sword of Damocles: (deyim) Demokles'in kılıcı, her an tehdit eden bir tehlike
sword of damocles: her an tehdit eden tehlike

İngilizce - İngilizce

damocles teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı: {i} legendary Greek character from whose name the expression "sword of Damocles" was derived; If you say that someone has the Sword of Damocles hanging over their head, you mean that they are in a situation in which something very bad could happen to them at any time. sword of Damocles sword. flourished 4th century BC Member of the court of Dionysius I the Elder at Syracuse in Sicily. Legend holds that when Damocles spoke in extravagant terms of Dionysius's happiness, the sovereign responded by inviting Damocles to a banquet and seating him beneath a sword suspended by a thread, thereby demonstrating the precarious fortunes of people who hold power; 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 was (4th century BC)
sword of Damocles: A thing or situation which causes a prolonged state of impending doom or misfortune
Sword of Damocles: {i} fable representing danger in a battle, threat, fear
sword of Damocles: Constant threat; imminent peril: "the Latin American debt, overhanging American banks like the sword of Damocles" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
sword of damocles: a constant and immanent peril; "the possibility hangs over their heads like the sword of Damocles

damocles

Heceleme

Da·mo·cles

dämıkliz

/ˈdaməˌklēz/ /ˈdæməˌkliːz/

[ 'da-m&-"klEz ] (noun.) Latin, from Greek DamoklEs.

Geçmiş

Favoriler