on the edge of
idiom
: very close to (something)
a species on the edge of extinction
The company was teetering on the edge of disaster/bankruptcy.
He was on the edge of saying something when the phone rang.
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Over the next two decades, his magnetic measurements would take Sabine from Brazil to Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago on the edge of the Arctic Ocean.
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Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Milwaukee is on the edge of a precipitation system moving through the country.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 26 Oct. 2025
Chad Colby’s Antico Nuovo, located in a strip mall on Beverly Boulevard on the edge of Koreatown, serves Los Angeles’s best pasta.
—Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
Nastia Korkia The Gold Hugo goes to a film that, in spite of very little dialogue, kept us on the edge of our seats with its powerful mise-en-scène and poetic characterizations of people and place.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
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Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Milwaukee is on the edge of a precipitation system moving through the country.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 26 Oct. 2025
Chad Colby’s Antico Nuovo, located in a strip mall on Beverly Boulevard on the edge of Koreatown, serves Los Angeles’s best pasta.
—Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
Nastia Korkia The Gold Hugo goes to a film that, in spite of very little dialogue, kept us on the edge of our seats with its powerful mise-en-scène and poetic characterizations of people and place.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
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“On the edge of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20the%20edge%20of. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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