knife edgenoun
uk/ˈnaɪf ˌedʒ/us/ˈnaɪf ˌedʒ/on a knife edge
in a difficult or worrying situation of which the result is very uncertain:
At the moment the election seems balanced on a knife edge.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Uncertainty
- be neither fish nor fowl idiom
- circumstantial
- conflicted
- debatable
- definite maybe
- dispute
- joker
- joker in the pack idiom
- kind
- kind of idiom
- kinda
- knife edge
- razor
- shade
- there's no knowing idiom
- touch-and-go
- uncertain
- uncertainty
- unconfirmed
- vague
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