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单词 to teeter on the brink
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to teeter on the brink
c. Also figurative, esp. in to teeter on the brink and variant.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)]
haltc825
flecchec1300
waverc1315
flickerc1325
wag1387
swervea1400
floghter1521
stacker1526
to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530
wave1532
stagger1533
to hang in the wind1536
to waver as, like, with the wind1548
mammer1554
sway1563
dodge1568
erch1584
suspend1585
float1598
swag1608
hoverc1620
hesitate1623
vacillate1623
fluctuate1634
demur1641
balance1656
to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674
to stand shall I, shall I1674
to go shill-I shall-I1700
to stand at shilly-shally1700
to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734
whiffle1737
dilly-dally1740
to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751
oscillate1771
shilly-shally1782
dacker1817
librate1822
humdrum1825
swing1833
(to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848
to back and fill1854
haver1866
wobble1867
shaffle1873
dicker1879
to be on the weigh-scales1886
waffle1894
to think twice1898
to teeter on the brink1902
dither1908
vagulate1918
pern1920
the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > render similar to [verb (transitive)] > approach, approximate, or border upon
to stand by ——?1527
to prick near1565
board1596
touch?1614
approximate1671
approacha1699
neighbour1859
to teeter on the brink1937
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)] > be in danger > be at risk or in a precarious position
stacker1402
periclitate1581
to stand on a rolling stone1581
to lie upon the wager1590
tottera1616
concern1659
to tread on eggs, on delicate ground, on thin icea1734
tremblea1862
to skate over (or on) thin ice1897
to teeter on the brink1937
1902 A. H. Lewis Wolfville Nights xvii. 259 A quorum of the committee is away teeterin' about in their own affairs.
1930 Punch 26 Feb. 237/1 I really have not time to go into the whole story now... I will quit stalling lest I teeter.
1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier xiii. 261 Every bank clerk dreaming of the sack, every shopkeeper teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, is in essentially the same position.
1949 Times 29 Sept. 5/2 The Government..still tremble and teeter on the verge.
1958 Daily Sketch 2 June 13/7 He effectively suggested an officer teetering on the edge of sanity.
1979 C. James Pillars of Hercules i. i. 25 He was teetering on the verge of declaring himself outright.
1980 D. Adams Restaurant at End of Universe iii. 25 Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness.
1983 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 July 279/2 Subsistence farming is widespread with nutrition teetering on the inadequate.
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