HANG BY A THREAD. thread the needle, synchronized fireworks light up skies

China's Asian Cup hopes hanging by thread after Qatar loss

Synchronized fireworks light up skies across Japan to mark a year to go before Olympics The Japan Times Fireworks at 121 locations in the 47 prefectures were set off at 8 p.m. in an event organized by Junior Chamber International Japan. The locations were ... Tokyo Olympics: Coronavirus risk raises questions over 2021 Games - BBC News Full Coverage

As the World Gets Tougher on China, Japan Tries to Thread a Needle The New York Times So as Chinese ships have engaged in the longest series of incursions in or near Japanese waters in several years, Japan has offered a restrained ... If a serious situation hangs by a thread, it means that even a slight change can decide what will happen and that a bad result such as death, failure, etc. is likely: The mayor's political future has been hanging by a thread since the fraud scandal. HANG BY A THREAD | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

lip-synch 

verb [I]
Performers who lip-synch songs pretend to be singing them when in fact they are just moving their lips.Apple took its first steps to position its iPhone as a BlackBerry rival, announcing features that allow businesses to sync up with corporate email and calendars.

sync, synch Show phonetics
noun [U]INFORMAL FOR synchronization, see at synchronize:
He's putting himself forward as a president whose ideas are in sync with (= are suited to and show an understanding of) a nation demanding change.

thread the needleの使い方と意味

• thread the needle

  1. 針に糸を通す

  2. 〈比喩〉難事を成し遂げる

  3. 〈比喩〉〔球技などでボールを〕狭い所に正確に打つ［投げる］

fit 3 

Pronunciation: /fɪt/ (also fytte)

NOUN

archaic

A section of a poem.

Example sentences

• The balance of this first fytte consists mostly of lengthy dialogue detailing the knight's impoverishment.
• When the knight is introduced in a later fytte of the poem, he is called Sir Richard-at-the-Lee.
• Percy has written a long ballad in many fits: it is pretty enough.

Origin

Old English fitt, perhaps the same word as fit², or related to German Fitze 'skein of yarn', in the obsolete sense 'thread with which weavers mark off a day's work'.