Sentence examples for hung on a knife from inspiring English sources

"Anyone sitting around this at the imperial dining table must have been aware that their lives hung on a knife edge," Beard told her viewers.

With the two main parties running neck and neck as the election was called, the result hung on a knife edge.

Hang on, a taxidermist?

Today's Financial Times bears a banner headline on p.1: "US election hangs on a knife edge".

I would say that the entire enterprise hangs on a knife edge.

An orphaned jacket hung on a hook.

"Hang on," says a spokesman.

The game hung on that knife edge for 13 minutes.

Hang on, I need a tissue.

With Hughes's protracted death-throes after being shot in the head, and with her own startlingly blood-boltered suicide (having niftily hung on to the knife that killed Scarpia), it was all of a piece that the curtain-calls should be taken in an atmosphere not of doom, but of pantomime jollity.

GB: Hang on, hang on.