on thin ice

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

Prepositional phrase

 * 1)  In a dangerous, hazardous, or delicate situation; at risk.

Adverb

 * , hazardously, delicately.

Translations

 * Catalan: en situaciò perillosa
 * Finnish: heikolla jäällä
 * French: sur la corde raide
 * German:
 * Indonesian: abu di atas tanggul
 * Italian: sul filo del rasoio
 * Latin: in periculō
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: em situação delicada, em situação difícil
 * Serbo-Croatian: на танком леду
 * Spanish: a riesgo, en la cuerda floja
 * Swedish: på tunn is