0 present participle of fray --
1 to become or to cause the threads in cloth or rope to become slightly separated, forming loose threads at the edge or end: --
2 If your temper frays or your nerves fray, you gradually become upset or annoyed: --
It is just that fraying at the edges, formal and informal, which has got us into the desperate situation in which we all admit we find ourselves.
National parks are special, and many of them are fraying at the edges.
The eurozone is already starting to show signs of fraying at the edges.
They cannot be cured by fraying at the edges.
I shall not say that it has disappeared altogether, but it is fraying.
It has evidently been on his mind and fraying his nerves ever since breakfast time.
Tempers are fraying and frustration is building up fast.
This is where the "resolute approach" is already fraying at the edges.
