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单词 teeter on the brink (or edge)
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teeter on the brink (or edge)

Be very close to a difficult or dangerous situation: the country teetered on the brink of civil war they are teetering on the edge of exhaustion...
  • Village shops continued to close while others teetered on the brink although community-owned shops, Internet retailing and home delivery schemes were becoming more popular.
  • It's certainly ambitious and unusual, a traditional story told in a bravura, experimental style, which at times is hilarious but at others teeters on the edge of tedium.
  • It teeters on the brink of journalistic disloyalty.
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