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cling
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cling to someone or something 
1. Lit. to hold on tight to someone or something. The child clung tightly to his mother. As she drifted in the sea, she clung to a floating log.
2. Fig. to hold onto the thought or memory of someone or something; to have a strong emotional attachment to or dependence on someone or something. Her immigrant parents clung to the old ways. Harold clung to the memory of his grandmother.

cling together

[for two or more people or animals] to hold on tightly to each other. The two children clung together throughout the ordeal. The baby baboon and its mother clung together and could not be separated.
See also: together

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 (usually in continuous tenses) We're hanging on by our fingernails and hoping that it rains before we lose our entire crop.

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 (usually in continuous tenses) We were clinging on by our fingertips, desperately trying to stop them scoring another goal.
See also: fingertip


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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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