knife edge

plural knife edges

1. alternativeAlternative form of knife-edge.

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

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

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

   2002, Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for You, →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.

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