Usually means: Existence or outcome highly precarious.
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  1. hang by a thread: Merriam-Webster
  2. hang by a thread: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hang by a thread: Vocabulary.com
  4. hang by a thread: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. hang by a thread: Wiktionary
  6. hang by a thread: Dictionary.com
  7. hang by a thread: Rhymezone
  8. Hang by a Thread: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. hang by a thread: FreeDictionary.org
  10. hang by a thread: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. hang by a thread: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. hang by a thread: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. hang by a thread: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (hang by a thread)

verb:  (idiomatic) To be in danger, calling for precise caution; to be in a precarious situation.

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