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What does on edge mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word on edge? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. (idiomatic) Tense, nervous or irritable.
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When I hooked up with Kimberly, it was because our relationship was on edge and dead.
Every sound that filtered through the snow-laden branches set his teeth on edge.
And then we had swarms of earthquakes, which set everybody's nerves on edge.
At the cores of the aegirine spherulites there typically are inclusions of cubic crystals of villiaumite to 3 cm on edge.
Many feel on edge and one woman claimed to have given up work as a result of the stress.
Another relatively new discovery is pyrite as attractive, sharp, cubic crystals, to 1 cm on edge, altered to goethite.

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