Hang Threat Sb/Sth Meaning Feel Facing Danger Unemployment

Meaning: If you feel that you are facing a threat or a danger, we can say the threat or the danger hangs over you.

• hang over sb/sth The threat of unemployment hangs over everyone in the company.
  
  
• hang over sb/sth After a fire had destroyed the old church, a sense of loss hung over the town.