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面对困难时期,可能有很多公司倒闭了,也有很多人虽然可能与失败只有一步之遥,也还在继续坚持着,挺过难关,那我们如何用英语去表达这种岌岌可危的状态呢? C: Hi guys. I’m Chris. J: And I’m Joy. Today we are gonna talk about the idiom: hang on by your fingernails. It means doing something in a very difficult situation and you are almost gonna fail. You can use it like this: I’m hanging on by my fingernails. / She was hanging on by her fingernails. / They have been hanging on by their fingernails. C: Now, let’s imagine someone went over a cliff. And the only things that are stopping him from falling are his fingernails. That would be a very tough situation. So maybe you had been spending too much money last month on your credit card. You realize that this month you have to pay for the debt but you barely have enough to pay it back. You can say: I’m really hanging on by my fingernails this month. Another good example is that you are working on a project for your company, but...