It's a tenuous thread and the slightest jar is capable of snapping it.
Even the most tenuous thread of story is infinitely better than none at all.
It was one hell of a tenuous thread.
The tenuous thread that had, a moment before, seemed to connect them, had vanished.
She was surprised; this was not the tenuous thread they had struggled so hard to achieve yesterday.
After all, his theory, if it could be called a theory, was based on a single tenuous thread of evidence.
"If the bonding has begun, there will be a tenuous thread of directional awareness."
But the concept is a tenuous thread on which to hang an art show.
He was still connected by a tenuous thread to the Jaspers oneness.
It was such a tenuous thread that Cranston was following.