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Nervous, tense
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on edge
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On Edge is an American alternative metal band from Arlington , Massachusetts , formed in 2013 by guitarist Tommy Barvick and drummer Jesse Schulz. Bassist Calvin McLean was recruited shortly after the band's inception, followed by the entrance of lead vocalist ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Edge \Edge\ ([e^]j), n. [OE. eg, egge, AS. ecg; akin to OHG. ekka, G. ecke, Icel. & Sw. egg, Dan. eg, and to L. acies, Gr. 'akh` point, Skr. a[,c]ri edge. [root] Cf. Egg , v. t., Eager , Ear spike of corn, Acute .] 1. The thin cutting side of the blade ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context idiomatic English) tense, nervous or irritable.
Usage examples of on edge.
Shadows lay like pencils on edge where broken, dirty brown tiles had tilted up.
He had not spoken since their return, but his smoldering presence set Heyoka's teeth on edge and his personal scent, overlaid with the pheromone signature of Levv, had intensified somehow, saturating the mountain air until he found it hard to think of anything else.
Her soprano was cool and uninflected, a deliberate dispassion that set Dame Estelle's mental antennae on edge.
The men were too much on edge to roam around looking at the craft.
With a scrape to set my teeth on edge it revealed a narrow, stone-lined stair.
Cleaning up parrot bowb wasn't too bad, but Archimedes' constant stream of knock-knock jokes was beginning to set his teeth on edge.
Splock hissed serpently, in a susurration so sibilant it set the psyche on edge.
These unnerving sounds mounted the scale into the supersonic, set the soldiers' teeth on edge, and set their swords to chattering against their shields.
Coffin Ed wasn't listening but the sound of the voice set his teeth on edge.
She was slightly heeled toward him, and he could see most of the quarterdeck and an end-on edge of the poop deck out over the water to his left.
His nerves on edge, the prince called Canthus to him and walked slowly around the perimeter of their small camp.
Jerry, looking unusually pale, seemed both pleased and put on edge by the newcomer.