hang on by one's fingernails
находиться в трудной ситуации, "держаться на волоске"
The company was going on with the work, but it was obvious they were hanging on by their fingernails.
Другие идиомы:
- have (something) at one's fingertips
- hang around
- wrap (someone) around one's little finger
- hang-up
- slip through (someone's) fingers
- hang a right
- put one's finger on (something)
- hang in (there)
- keep one's finger's crossed
- hang on
- hang (someone) in effigy
- hang one's hat (somewhere)
- sticky fingers
- lay a finger on (someone or something)
- at one's fingertips