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knife-edge , knife edge 
1 To be on a knife-edge means to be in a situation in which nobody knows what is going to happen next, or in which one thing is just as likely to happen as another. 
 (mainly BRIT) 
♦ on a knife-edge  phrase 
The game is poised on a knife-edge. One mistake or one piece of good luck could decide it.  
2  adj You can use knife-edge to refer to something that is very exciting or tense because you do not know what is going to happen next. 
 (mainly BRIT) 
Tonight's knife-edge vote could be uncomfortably close.