teetering on the brink/edge of

idiom

: close to being in a specified state or condition

The countries are teetering on the brink of war.

The bird is teetering on the edge of extinction.

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Recent Examples on the Web Back in her banking days, those stumbles often meant teetering on the edge of a glass cliff. —

Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 2 July 2024 The flooding was so severe that a home teetering on the edge of the riverbank collapsed into the rising waters, images show. —

Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 June 2024 Barnes grew up in the house now teetering on the edge of the riverbank. —

Raquel Coronell Uribe, NBC News, 26 June 2024 From the quaint township of Nibelheim, to the post-industrial crags of Corel, and the arid wastelands on Midgar’s outskirts, Cloud and his companions discover a land teetering on the brink of disaster. —

Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for teetering on the brink/edge of

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