a cloud hanging over sb
Definition
› a situation or future event that makes you worry or feel unhappy: When you're waiting for an operation, you feel like there's a cloud hanging over you.Saddening, shocking and upsetting
(Definition of a cloud hanging over sb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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a close/near thing idiom
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a cloud on the horizon idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- affecting adjective
- agonizing adjective
- baleful adjective
- be cold comfort idiom
- bombast noun
- brass neck noun
- bruising adjective
- distressing adjective
- dolorous adjective
- ego trip noun
- egomania noun
- egotism noun
- hubris noun
- hurtful adjective
- narcissism noun
- poignant adjective
- pride comes/goes before a fall idiom
- unmentionable adjective
- upsetting adjective
- vanity noun (SELFISH)
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