Definition of "on the edge" in İngilizce

Prepositional phrase

1. In a precarious position, with one's resources nearly exhausted.

   • Our job as social workers is to help families on the edge.

2. In a state of excitement due to taking risks.

   • living on the edge

3. (with of) With figurative or temporal proximity to .

   • The stock market was on the edge of collapse.
   • on the edge of lunacy