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词汇 on-a-razor-edge
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on a razor edge


idiom
in a very uncertain and dangerous situation: 处于险境;境况岌岌可危
Allegations of fraud have put the politician's career on a razor edge.由于被指控有欺诈行为,这名政客的职业生涯岌岌可危。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Experiencing difficulties
be
be (caught) between a rock and a hard placeidiom
be climbing the wallsidiom
be for the high jumpidiom
be/come up against a brick wallidiom
fall into something
flounder
frying pan
fumble
fun
jungle
leg
not have a leg to stand onidiom
out of the frying pan into the fireidiom
pickle
pressed
prob
rocky
sticky
strand

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Uncertainty

Examples of on a razor edge


on a razor edge
Our economic position is balanced onarazoredge.
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Far too few people realise that, for the foreseeable future, we shall, as a nation, always be operating onarazoredge.
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We have, it is true, to balance, almost onarazoredge, one risk against another, but we ought not thereby to repine.
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It is certainly true that the shipyard had lived onarazoredge for years.
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In 1938 war nearly broke out; it was onarazoredge, and in 1939 it did break out.
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Someone said that we are living onarazoredge.
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