Were this not the case, our legal system would indeed be on shaky ground.
Those values then are implanted in already existing words whose comparatively low frequency and learned associations put us on shaky ground when we want to say them.
I have always found that one is on shaky ground when giving examples.
I thought that he was on shaky ground because in one part of his speech he was obviously reading verbatim from a prepared text.
I am not on shaky ground at all.
The legal basis for collecting tolls now seems to be on shaky ground.
One thing is clear: where cultural freedom is at risk, the free market is also on shaky ground.
By 1937 the marriage was on shaky ground.
