Translation for "hilo delgado" to english

Hilo delgado

• thin thread

Translation examples

thin thread

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

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

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

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.
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.