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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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Downing Street, if not quite yet gripped by paralysis, is at least on edge waiting for malevolent treachery to strike again.
When I hooked up with Kimberly, it was because our relationship was on edge and dead.
Another relatively new discovery is pyrite as attractive, sharp, cubic crystals, to 1 cm on edge, altered to goethite.
Many feel on edge and one woman claimed to have given up work as a result of the stress.
Some owls screech and scream their heads off, setting your teeth on edge and jangling your nerves.
And then we had swarms of earthquakes, which set everybody's nerves on edge.

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