nervous or worried.

You're always on edge waiting for an important call, because you don't really know when that phone will ring.

Usage notes: often used in the forms set you on edge or put you on edge:

The accident set us on edge for several days.

Related vocabulary: set your teeth on edge

• lower your guard
• lower your sights
• lowest common denominator
• lowest of the low
• low-key
• low life
• low man on the totem pole
• low on the totem pole
• luck into
• center on someone
• center on something
• C'est la vie.
• chalk something up to
• chalk something up to something else
• chalk up
• chalk up something
• chalk up to
• chalk up to something else
• champ at the bit
• chance arm
• Chance would be a fine thing!
• chance your arm
• change hands
• change mind
• change move with the times