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/rˈeɪzər ɛdʒ/ Listen

Razor edge

noun

An edge that is as sharp as the cutting side of a razor.

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"Razor edge" Quotes from Famous Books

... sharpened the knife, as if it had become blunt again in the night, and got up a razor edge on the weapon, and once more proceeded to the stye. I selected my victim, and got one of my legs over the wall of the enclosure; but then my heart failed me, it seemed as if I was about to slay an old friend; ...

— Jethou - or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles • E. R. Suffling

... asked that, because of course they had. It was like asking a mountain climber if he had ever felt a taut rope over the razor edge of a precipice suddenly ...

— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton

... are you going to do?' asked Macgillivray. 'If it were merely a question of destroying an organization it might be managed, for an organization presents a big front. But it's a question of destroying this one man, and his front is a razor edge. How are you going to find him? It's like looking for a needle in a haystack, and such a needle! A needle which can become a piece of straw or a ...

— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan

Words linked to "Razor edge" : edge