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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)
See also: fingertip, hang

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The California Cling Peach Board (CCPB) selects Sarb Johl as the new chairman for the 2003-2004 term.
He said $200 million in subsidies from the European Union to Greek peach farmers has "smothered" California cling peach growers in a flood of imported canned peaches.
The state's cling peach crop will be below average at 475,000 tons, but above the 1995 level of 400,000 tons.
 
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