KNIFE-EDGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A narrow boundary

Example:

he lived on a knife-edge between genius and insanity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("knife-edge" is a kind of...):

bound; boundary; limit (the greatest possible degree of something)

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