knife-edge
刀锋,刀刃,刀口,刀锋式
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- : the cutting edge of a knife.
- : anything very sharp.
- : a wedge on the fine edge of which a scale beam, pendulum, or the like, balances or oscillates.
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It’ll keep your knife in exactly the right position, so you don’t have to worry about creating a weird angle on the knife edge.
Sukowa, perhaps best known for the films she made with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, walks this knife edge deftly.
Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.
French officials were already on edge after a series of apparently unconnected attacks, including the stabbing of police officers.
I took out my knife, my Ka-Bar, and knocked his teeth out, but they fell into his throat.
The rage that Marvin has embodied, a man on the edge of eruption, is always a badly wounded man.
Marvin hops over the edge of his retaining wall, which he built.
After a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.
He was hurrying towards the corner of the palace grounds when a shriek from Winifred set his teeth on edge.
The first man my eyes lighted upon as I stepped inside was MacRae, humped disconsolately on the edge of a bunk.
Pearson flung his knife and fork at it, having forgotten to drop those light weapons when he leaped up.
Squinty turned around, standing on the edge of the little brook, and waited, his heart beating faster and faster.