on thin ice

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Suggesting a person skating or walking on a frozen-over body of water, at risk of breaking through and falling into the water.

16 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: en situaciò perillosa — at risk
• Finnish: heikolla jäällä — at risk
• French: sur la corde raide — at risk
• Georgian: თხელ ყინულზე (txel q̇inulze) — at risk
• German: auf dünnem Eis — at risk
• Indonesian: abu di atas tanggul — at risk
• Italian: sul filo del rasoio — at risk
• Latin: in periculō — at risk
• Polish: po cienkim lodzie — at risk
• Portuguese: em situação delicada — at risk
• Portuguese: em situação difícil — at risk
• Romanian: pe muchie de cuțit — at risk
• Serbo-Croatian: на танком леду (na tankom ledu) — at risk
• Spanish: a riesgo — at risk
• Spanish: en la cuerda floja — at risk
• Swedish: på tunn is — at risk