Have Fun with these famous English and American Idioms! Idiom: " Sword of Damocles " Idiom Meaning  " A feeling of impending doom - that a massive problem is about to hit you "  This example of this common, famous American - English Idiom Sword of Damocles plays a major part in the non-standard common speech, slang or dialect that is natural to the people of the United States and Great Britain. The meaning and origin of the American - English Sword of Damocles idiom has been explained above and forms part of the free, online idioms dictionary. 
 An Idiom is a common, everyday phrase or expression or saying whose meaning cannot be understood by the individual words or elements.   |