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(live) on the edge

1. to be in an uncertain situation or one that could cause harm. I do not believe a person has to live on the edge in order to be a creative artist.

2. to be very poor. Too many children live on the edge, without proper food or medical care.

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But now, drawing back to the edge of the table, gradually lower your eye (thus bringing yourself more and more into the condition of the inhabitants of Flatland), and you will find the penny becoming more and more oval to your view, and at last when you have placed your eye exactly on the edge of the table (so that you are, as it were, actually a Flatlander) the penny will then have ceased to appear oval at all, and will have become, so far as you can see, a straight line. Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context Jeremy sat disconsolately on the edge of his boat--sucking his sore fingers and peering down into the water--a MUCH worse thing happened; a really FRIGHTFUL thing it would have been, if Mr. The Original Peter Rabbit Books by Potter, Beatrix View in context Now, a back-handed stroke, on the edge, takes long practice. The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context More results

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But now, drawing back to the edge of the table, gradually lower your eye (thus bringing yourself more and more into the condition of the inhabitants of Flatland), and you will find the penny becoming more and more oval to your view, and at last when you have placed your eye exactly on the edge of the table (so that you are, as it were, actually a Flatlander) the penny will then have ceased to appear oval at all, and will have become, so far as you can see, a straight line.

Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context

Jeremy sat disconsolately on the edge of his boat--sucking his sore fingers and peering down into the water--a MUCH worse thing happened; a really FRIGHTFUL thing it would have been, if Mr.

The Original Peter Rabbit Books by Potter, Beatrix View in context

Now, a back-handed stroke, on the edge, takes long practice.

The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context

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