hanging over

Adding: "It isn't acceptable for victims, it isn't acceptable for witnesses who have to - bear in mind - remember what had happened and be able to deal with it so many years later, it isn't acceptable for defendants who have allegations hanging over their heads for years and years."

Conservative group leader Janet Clowes said she thought of the support as "a mortgage because they will be hanging over the head of this council for many decades to come".

Jay Powell, the Fed chair, addressed one of the biggest questions hanging over the next administration: Will the president-elect go after the central bank’s independence?

Without that hanging over their heads they have no need to hold back.

If anything, he boldly foreshadows the darkness just on the horizon, shooting his drama austerely, the weight of inevitable doom hanging over everything.