live on the edge | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)To have anadventurousorperilouslifestyle; tobehavein a manner which createsrisksfor oneself.1983, Diana Cooper-Clark,Designs of Darkness: Interviews with Detective Novelists‎[1]:Your idea that murder is the objective correlative of spiritual death, a metaphor for our daily lives, is fascinating. Isliving on the edgethrilling and an interesting way to live?1984, “A Good Knight's Work”, inKnight Rider:I wanted a chance to get out, tolive life on the edge.[…]All right! All right. I can understand you wanting some excitement. But do you have any idea what you're getting involved in here?1989November 26, Linda Saslow, “Dragging The Ocean For Winter's Bounty”, inNew York Times, retrieved13 October 2011:"I likeliving on the edge," said Mr. Wertz, adding that, although winter fishing is far more dangerous, it is also more lucrative.2005April 18, Michael Elliott, “Leaders & Revolutionaries: Chen Shui-bian”, inTime:The President of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian, seems to relishliving on the edge. . . . Having narrowly won a second four-year term last year after surviving an apparent assassination attempt, Chen, 54, will remain in office until 2008.; (idiomatic)To becaughtin aneconomicorsocietalsituation which one did not choose, whichthreatensone'swell-beingor life, and which causesdistress.1982, William R. Ratchford,Hearing Before the Select Committee on Aging / House of Representatives‎[2]:Any yet what we are talking about today is a threat to life, for 36 million very important Americans living on the margin so to speak,living on the edge, certainly, and living in wonderment as to whether or not they are going to be treated fairly in this process.2006April 19, “Tel Aviv bombing shatters lull in violence”, inIOL News (Reuters-Sapa-AP), retrieved13 October 2011:"The bombing was a sudden jolt and we are back toliving on the edgeagain," said Gonsherovsky, 23, in Jerusalem's crowded Mahane Yehuda market.2007June 13, Tiisetso Motsoeneng, “Drought leaves Lesotho facing food crisis”, inMail & Guardian, South Africa, retrieved13 October 2011:"The last thing Lesotho needed was another poor harvest since so many vulnerable people are alreadyliving on the edge, struggling to cope with the combined impact of successive crop failures, extreme poverty and HIV/Aids," said Amir Abdulla, WFP's regional director for Southern Africa.

Examples:

EN: Scheme, connive, play both ends against the middle live on the edge of a volcano liable to blow up?
ES: ¿Haciendo planes, intrigando, dividiendo para tener mayor poder, viviendo al borde de un volcán en erupción?
EN: We live next door to the ocean, but we also live on the edge of a desert.
ES: Vivimos al lado del océano, pero también al borde de un desierto.
EN: We live on the edge of the world.
ES: Vivimos en el fin del mundo.
EN: When you live on the edge, you learn to make fast evaluations.
ES: Cuando se vive en el peligro, se aprende a evaluar rápidamente.
EN: Because I'm the kind of guy that likes to live on the edge.
ES: Soy la clase de tipo al que le gusta vivir al límite.
EN: I'm the kind of gal who likes to live on the edge.
ES: Soy una chica a la que le gusta vivir al límite.
EN: I'll live on the edge.
ES: Viviré al límite.
EN: You live on the edge and survives or dies in a glow of glory.
ES: Uno vive al borde y sobrevive o muere en un resplandor de gloria...
EN: I gotta live on the edge. Push the envelope.
ES: Tengo que vivir al extremo.
EN: These guys, they live on the edge, minute to minute.
ES: Estos tipos, viven al extremo, minuto a minuto.
EN: You live on the edge.
ES: Vives arriesgándote.
EN: You live on the edge of every moment and yet, in its own way, violence is attractive, too.
ES: Y aun así, a su modo, la violencia es tentadora.
EN: I like to live on the edge.
ES: Me gusta vivir en el filo de la navaja.
EN: You live on the edge!
ES: Tú corres riesgos.
EN: They call it the New Frontier... but it's nothing less than a battleground... a place where free men live on the edge of a razor in this place called Harsh Realm.
ES: La llaman la Nueva Frontera, pero es nada menos, que un campo de batalla. un sitio en el que hombres libres viven pendientes de un hilo en este lugar llamado Harsh Realm.

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