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damocles

n.
1.the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC)

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    up against (something)
    close to something
    The ladder was standing up against the tree in the yard.



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