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Meanings of thin edge in English

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Usage of thin edge in English
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He was standing on the thin edge of hysteria They all were.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
2
We must get the thin edge of the wedge in first.
The Vicar's Daughter
3
He broke a fragment from the thin edge and tasted it almost fearfully.
The Wrong Twin
4
Christians fear this is just the thin edge of the wedge.
Reuters
5
Immediately he felt a thin edge of irritation in his voice.
The Hustler
6
Fever had reduced me to the last thin edge of existence.
Five Nights: A Novel
7
A moment he hung on the thin edge of his resolve.
The Red Axe
8
Now it stood ajar, and a thin edge of light leaked through it.
The Short Victorious War
9
I'm willing to be the thin edge of the wedge, said Bel Bree.
The Other Girls
10
One goal was to deadhang from a paint-stirring stick on its thin edge.
Climbing Magazine
11
And so got the thin edge of the wedge in, eh?
A Woman-Hater
12
You were the thin edge of the wedge, in fact.
Queen Lucia
13
After all she was the thin edge of the wedge.
Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
14
The walls showed bayonet-points: a thin edge of steel encircled a pit of fire.
Vittoria — Volume 6
15
They came down next morning with jaded faces and tempers on the thin edge.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 / Boule de Suif and Other...
16
The thin edge of that plurality made him think twice.
The Ramrodders: A Novel
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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