The group hung on by a thread at the site for 18 months.

"This thing could have been hanging by a thread since who knows when."

From that moment their lives had hung by a thread.

His life hung by a thread and he knew it.

He still lived, the doctor said, but life only hung by a thread.

You're going to get him soon, because he's hanging by a thin thread and is just about ready to fall at your feet.

The future of the world's economy hangs, one might say, by a thread.

There'd been times when it seemed their marriage was hanging by a thread.

The woman was a life hanging by a thread, but also a vehicle for teaching.

At this time last year it seemed as if the global economy was hanging by a thread.