They were both on the thin edge of hysteria, he realized.
The city lived on a thin edge, often spilling over into violence.
The curtain dropped back into place, though a thin edge of light showed at one side.
He seemed to turn to you just a thin edge of himself.
She kept control of herself only by the thinnest edge.
One island is just the thin edge of the wedge, they'll say.
They all were on the thin edge, ready to be pushed over.
But that's only the beginning, the thin edge of the wedge.
After all she was the thin edge of the wedge.
We're all tired, right down to the thin ragged edge.