You've been skating on pretty thin ice.

It'll make the competition stiff for us.

I shouldn't talk to you about things like that.

And the ice that is there is quite thin.

I have seen polar bears walking across very, very thin ice in search of food.

As we have seen time and again, the transition to democracy is delicate and difficult and can suffer severe setbacks.

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The ice on the lake is too thin to bear your weight.

And, for any Finnish people in the audience, this is a Finnish pun we are, both literally and metaphorically, skating on thin ice if we don't understand that kind of thing.

The extra amount that disappeared last fall was equivalent to this much. It comes back in the winter, but not as permanent ice, as thin ice vulnerable. The amount remaining could be completely gone in summer in as little as five years.

In the last three decades, its volume has shrunk by roughly three quarters. As the University of Laval s Louis Fortier puts it, we are three quarters of the way to ice free summers in the Arctic Ocean.

And this meant I could ski over very thin ice, and if I fell through, it wasn't the end of the world.

For each of them soon came to understand that he possessed an unparalleled array of emotional strengths and political skills that proved far more important than the thinness of his external résumé.

Over the years, the Government of Iceland had placed special emphasis on UNU programmes in Iceland, which were an integral part of Iceland's development policy and its efforts to honour the commitments made at the Johannesburg Summit.

For both Suu Kyi and Thein Sein, every step from now on will be delicate, to be calibrated with the same care and deliberation that Mandela and de Klerk used in bridging their differences and leading their country out of isolation. But the international community, too, must act with great care.

I was lying on a thin, hard spinal bed.

Then those of the left hand how (unhappy) will be those of the left hand!

But those of the left hand how (unhappy) those of the left hand

And those on the left how (wretched) are those on the left!

Companions of the Left (O Companions of the Left!)

The Companions of the Left (O Companions of the Left!)

And those on the left hand how miserable shall those on the left hand be!

And the fellows on the left hand how miserable Shall the fellows on the left hand be!

And those on the Left Hand (i.e. those who will be given their Record in their left hands), Who will be those on the Left Hand? (As a disgrace for them, because they will enter Hell).

And those on the Left Hand Who will be those on the Left Hand?

And those on the Left what of those on the Left?

And the People on the Left and how miserable will be the People on the Left!

As for the People on the Left how miserable will be the People on the Left!

And (then) those on the left hand what of those on the left hand?

And those on the left hand What of those on the left hand?

And the People of the Left Hand and what are the People of the Left Hand?!

And the People of the Left Hand what are the People of the Left Hand?!

Companions of the Left, what are the Companions of the Left?

As for the Companions of the Left

And the companions of the left what are the companions of the left?

The people of the left hand those whose books of records will be placed in their left hands. How miserable they will be!

As for the people on the left hand, how miserable they will be!

And (as to) the companions of the left hand how wretched are the companions of the left hand!

And those of the left hand, how wretched are those of the left hand!

Those on the Left how unlucky are those on the Left!

Those on the Left how unfortunate are those on the Left!