Someone said that we are living on a razor edge.
In 1938 war nearly broke out; it was on a razor edge, and in 1939 it did break out.
It is certainly true that the shipyard had lived on a razor edge for years.
We have, it is true, to balance, almost on a razor edge, one risk against another, but we ought not thereby to repine.
Far too few people realise that, for the foreseeable future, we shall, as a nation, always be operating on a razor edge.
Our economic position is balanced on a razor edge.
