Both husband and wife knew how slender a thread of hope that was.

Everything between these teams has seemed to rest on the slender thread of a single shot.

"Should not" was a slender thread to hang all those lives on.

It seems a slender thread to bear so much weight.

That's a slender thread, but it's what we have at the moment.

It seemed like a very slender thread on which to hang his life.

Upon such slender threads are the lives of men suspended.

They know how slender the thread is between winning and losing.

On that slender, almost irrelevant thread her decision was made.

The slender thread is about to be cut by the scissors in her other hand.