N. danger, peril, insecurity, jeopardy, risk, hazard, venture, precariousness, slipperiness, instability, defenselessness &c

V. be in danger, be exposed to danger, run into danger, incur danger, encounter danger, run a risk, lay oneself open to, lean on a broken reed, trust to a broken reed, feel the ground sliding from under one, have to run for it, have the chances against one, have the odds against one, face long odds, be in deep trouble, be between a rock and a hard place, hang by a thread, totter, sleep on a volcano, stand on a volcano, sit on a barrel of gunpowder, live in a glass house, bring in danger, place in danger, put in danger, place in jeopardy, put in jeopardy, endanger, expose to danger, imperil, jeopard, jeopardize, compromise, sail too near the wind, adventure, risk, hazard, venture, stake, set at hazard, run the gauntlet, engage in a forlorn hope, threaten danger, run one hard, lay a trap for

Adj. in danger, exposure, endangered, vulnerability, fraught with danger, vulnerable point, dangerous, heel of achilles, hazardous, forlorn hope, perilous, leap in the dark, parlous, road to ruin, periculous|, faciles descensus averni, unsafe, hairbreadth escape, unprotected &c. (safe, protect ), cause for alarm, insecure, source of danger, untrustworthy, rock ahead, built upon sand, breakers ahead, on a sandy basis, storm brewing, wildcat, clouds in the horizon, defenseless, clouds gathering, fenceless, warning, guardless, alarm, harborless, apprehension, unshielded, vulnerable, expugnable, exposed, open to, aux abois, at bay, on the wrong side of the wall, on a lee shore, on the rocks, at stake, in question, precarious, critical, ticklish, slippery, slippy, hanging by a thread, with a halter round one's neck, between the hammer and the anvil, between scylla and charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fires, on the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a precipice, on the edge of a volcano, in the lion's den, on slippery ground, under fire, not out of the wood, unwarned, unadmonished, unadvised, unprepared, off one's guard, tottering, unstable, unsteady, shaky, top-heavy, tumbledown, ramshackle, crumbling, waterlogged, helpless, guideless, in a bad way, reduced to the last extremity, at the last extremity, trembling in the balance, nodding to its fall, threatening, ominous, illomened, alarming, explosive, adventurous, (bold) 861

Phr. incidit in scyllam qui vult vitare charybdim, nam tua res agitur paries dum proximus ardet

N. hopelessness, despair, desperation, despondency, depression, pessimism, pessimist, job's comforter, bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen, abandonment, desolation, resignation, surrender, submission, hope deferred, dashed hopes, vain expectation, airy hopes &c, forlorn hope, gone case, dead duck, gone coon*, goner*, bad job, bad business, enfant perdu, gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon, slough of despond, cave of despair, immedicabile vulnus

V. despair, lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope, relinquish all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the hope of, relinquish the hope of, give up, give over, yield to despair, falter, despond, jeter le manche apres la cognee, inspire despair, drive to despair, disconcert, dash one's hopes, crush one's hopes, destroy one's hopes, hope against hope, abandon, resign, surrender, submit

Adj. hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir, forlorn, desolate, inconsolable, broken hearted, unpromising, unpropitious, inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over, out of the question, not to be thought of, impracticable, past hope, past cure, past mending, past recall, at one's last gasp, given up, given over, incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy, incorrigible, irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable, ruined, undone, immitigable

Phr. "lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate", its days are numbered, the worst come to the worst, "no change, no pause, no hope, yet i endure", "o dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon", "mene mene tekel upharson"

N. threat, menace, defiance, abuse, minacity, intimidation, denunciation, fulmination, commination, gathering clouds

V. threat, threaten, menace, snarl, growl, gnarl, mutter, bark, bully, defy, intimidate, keep in terrorem, hold up in terrorem, hold out in terrorem, shake the fist at, double the fist at, clinch the fist at, thunder, talk big, fulminate, use big words, bluster, look daggers, stare daggers

Adj. threatening, menacing, minatory, minacious, comminatory, abusive, in terrorem, ominous, defiant, under the ban

Int. vae victis, at your peril, do your worst