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2021-04-19 11:04
(be/hang) in the balance British negative Written language verb phrase
Used to describe the condition of uncertainty that something is in.
Mark's relationship with his girlfriend is hanging in the balance after a lot of arguments.
His condition hung in the balance as the fireman carried him out of the burning house.
Someone or something that tends to be unpredictable
Something that only has one of two different end results: positive or negative
To waver between two opposing opinions about something or someone
To express that you don't believe in something that someone has just said
The verb "be" and "hang" should be conjugated according to its tense.
The balance is an old weight-measurement system which has pans on each of the two ends. weighed object is put in one pan and the weights are added one by one to the other pan. At some point, the two pans will be balanced. Destiny and the result is considered as the uncertain weights. The idiom was created and used by John Lydgate since the Fall of Princes (1430).
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