knife edge

See also: knife-edge

English

Noun

knife edge (plural knife edges)

1. Alternative form of knife-edge
   • 2002, Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for You, →ISBN:

     “Thank you, Flannery,” Anne said, her low voice a knife edge between sincerity and sarcasm, “for saving my life."

   • 2007, David A. Rollins, A Knife Edge, →ISBN:

     While I'd never been to Pakistan, I'd seen plenty of towns like this one just across the border in Afghanistan, perched on a knife edge between life and death, settlements where the people had nothing in their lives except for war, a few goats and a lot of religion.

   • 2016, Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait, →ISBN, page 82:

     I'm on a knife edge, Lydia, don't you see?