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:
- cross one's fingers
- put one's finger on (something)
- hang (someone) in effigy
- hang up (something)
- Hang it!
- point the finger (of blame) at (someone)
- hang one's hat (somewhere)
- have a finger in the pie
- wrap (someone) around one's little finger
- hang-up
- hang on
- hang a right
- hang in (there)
- hang in the balance
- keep one's finger's crossed