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What does 'Hanging on by fingernails' mean?
To maintain a position or status with great difficulty, often feeling like one is barely managing to cope or survive.
What is the origion of 'Hanging on by fingernails'?
This phrase vividly describes the situation of being in a precarious or desperate state, using the image of someone clinging to a surface by just their fingernails, emphasizing a struggle to hold on.
Emoji meanings
- represents 'climbing'
metaphorically suggesting effort and struggle to maintain position or status
represents 'fingernails'indicating the precariousness of the grip
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