Health-care reform stands on the edge of a dramatic precipice.
Until the shooter is caught, journalists and bankers in Paris will be especially on edge.
During a performance of “Like a Prayer,” the star walked to the edge of the stage and greeted some excited fans.
Standing on the edge of the Burfell volcano, you realize what a fragile construct modern civilization is.
Maybe the exploits of the Anthony Weiner in New York helped push the Anthony Weiner in Massachusetts over the edge.
It lies at the edge of the Indian country and tends to advance.
He ran his fingers over the edge, hissing as he did so between his teeth.
The blade was broad, with the edge of a razor and the point of a needle.
At the edge of his mind was vague, uneasy wonder, obviously not his own thought.
Well, then, isn't the edge of the water there chuck full of dead trees?
Old English ecg "corner, edge, point," also "sword" (cf. ecgplega, literally "edge play," ecghete, literally "edge hate," both used poetically for "battle"), from Proto-Germanic *agjo (cf. Old Frisian egg "edge;" Old Saxon eggia "point, edge;" Middle Dutch egghe, Dutch eg; Old Norse egg, see egg (v.); Old High German ecka, German Eck "corner"), from PIE root *ak- "sharp, pointed" (cf. Sanskrit asrih "edge," Latin acies, Greek akis "point;" see acrid).
Spelling development of Old English -cg to Middle English -gg to Modern English -dge represents a widespread shift in pronunciation. To get the edge on (someone) is U.S. colloquial, first recorded 1911. Edge city is from Joel Garreau's 1992 book of that name. Razor's edge as a perilous narrow path translates Greek epi xyrou akmes. To have (one's) teeth on edge is from late 14c., though "It is not quite clear what is the precise notion originally expressed in this phrase" [OED].
late 13c., "to give an edge to" (implied in past participle egged), from edge (n.). Meaning "to move edgeways (with the edge toward the spectator), advance slowly" is from 1620s, originally nautical. Meaning "to defeat by a narrow margin" is from 1953. The meaning "urge on, incite" (16c.) often must be a mistake for egg (v.). Related: Edged; edging.
have an edge on, have an edge on someone