Translation for "thin thread" to spanish

Thin thread

• hilo delgado

Translation examples

hilo delgado

Not even a thin thread.
Ni siquiera un hilo delgado.

his life hung over a cliff, suspended by a thin thread it seemed.
la vida le colgaba sobre un precipicio, parecía suspendida de un hilo delgado.

It was a slip of paper, to which a lock of hair had been tied with a thin thread.
Constaba de un trozo de papel al que con un hilo delgado habían atado un mechón de pelo.

For the “fallen sister,” as she thought of her, had soon become a protégée, in whom Diotima was moved to take an especially active interest because her own situation made her see the ignoble mystery of nymphomania as a kind of female sword of Damocles which, she said, might hang by a thin thread even over the head of a vestal virgin.
Porque «la hermana caída», como la llamaba ahora, se había convertido en su protegida, y pronto le dedicó un interés especialmente activo, porque se sentía empujada por su propia situación a ver en el indigno misterio de la ninfomanía una especie de espada de Damocles femenina, la cual, colgada de un hilo delgado, podía estar suspendida incluso sobre la cabeza de una Genoveva.