For an unelected prime minister, Mr Monti was skating on thin ice.
Rival sports paper AS is also predicting that Pellegrini is on thin ice: "One more defeat will cost Pellegrini his job, " it claimed.
Critics point out that most of the best-known terror convictions have been plea-bargains a hint, they say, that the government is on thin ice legally.
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"I feel as if I am walking on thin ice, " he said then, and even now his nervous smile and effete hand wave suggest someone afraid to venture too far from the shore.
Even before Mr. Forstall refused to sign the apology over the maps, he was on thin ice at Apple, said people familiar with the matter, despite fierce loyalty from some members of his team.
But many more displays like Leicester's feeble showing at Twickenham will leave Loffreda - who has come in for criticism for his decision to leave speedster Tom Varndell out of the side to face the Ospreys - on thin ice.
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Don't we all deserve more from the seemingly infinite media echo chamber of alarmism than those windy speculations, snow jobs and projections established on theoretical thin ice?
You see, it wasn't so long ago my boyhood favorites the Blackhawks were skating on (insert "thin ice" cliche here).
So it appears that the ice that the hotheads skate on is pretty thin.
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