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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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Another relatively new discovery is pyrite as attractive, sharp, cubic crystals, to 1 cm on edge, altered to goethite.
When I hooked up with Kimberly, it was because our relationship was on edge and dead.
Many feel on edge and one woman claimed to have given up work as a result of the stress.
As people breathe it in, they may become slightly jumpier and a little more on edge.
Some owls screech and scream their heads off, setting your teeth on edge and jangling your nerves.
At the cores of the aegirine spherulites there typically are inclusions of cubic crystals of villiaumite to 3 cm on edge.

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