thin ice

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as inimperilment
as indanger
as inhazard

Word Origin & History

mid-14c., from northern England dialect, from Old Norse egg, which vied with Middle English eye, eai (from Old English æg) until finally displacing it after 1500; both are from Proto-Germanic *ajja(m) (cf. Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, Dutch, Old High German, German ei, Gothic ada), probably from PIE *owyo-/*oyyo- "egg" (cf. Old Church Slavonic aja, Russian jajco, Breton ui, Welsh wy, Greek oon, Latin ovum); possibly derived from root *awi- "bird." Caxton (15c.) writes of a merchant (probably a north-country man) in a public house on the Thames who asked for eggs:

She did, ...

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Example Sentences for thin ice

But I'll come off the thin ice, and you shall have nothing but facts now.

"I'm showing ye how an old woman walks on thin ice," said Martha.

At 50 you are walking on thin ice; look out, danger is near.

Mr. Baker ventured out upon the thin ice of cross-examination.

But the day was so cold, there was little danger from thin ice.

One morning the party came to a stream covered ...

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Synonyms for thin ice

noun danger

razor's edge
thin ice

More words related to thin ice

danger

noun. hazard, troublesome situation

harm's way

noun. danger

razor's edge
thin ice

hazard

noun. danger

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