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cling on/hang on by your fingernails if you are clinging on by your fingernails, you are only just managing to avoid danger or failure. We're hanging on by our fingernails and hoping that it rains before we lose our entire crop. (usually in continuous tenses) See also: hang cling on/hang on by your fingertips if you are clinging on by your fingertips, you are only just managing to avoid danger or failure. We were clinging on by our fingertips, desperately trying to stop them scoring another goal. (usually in continuous tenses) |
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Lopez, wearing a clingy mustard top, a short tan skirt and copper heels, added, ``That's one of the most intriguing things about dancers: They may be starving, they may not have booked a gig in six months, and they're still at it. The "Premier Line" hoists, tucks or pads areas so that a clingy dress with a plunging neckline can really sing. A new class of compounds created by researchers in Canada and the United States switches between clingy and nonclingy forms upon exposure to common gases, including air. |
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