at the cutting edge イディオム

a double-edged sword

a device that can help you and hurt you Truth is a double-edged sword. It can imprison me or set me free.

cutting edge

the latest technology, state of the art This picture is the cutting edge - the best in the TV industry.

double-edged sword

(See a double-edged sword)

drive me to the edge

cause me to be nearly mad or insane When those chipmunks sing, it drives me to the edge!

full-fledged

complete, having everything that is needed to be something She became a full-fledged nurse before she went to Saudi Arabia to work for a year.

get a word in edgewise

manage to break into a conversation I couldn

have an edge on

have an advantage (over someone) Their team has an edge on the race to win the high school football championship.

hedge in

keep from getting out or moving freely, block in My car was hedged in by the other cars and I was unable to move it this morning.

hedge your bets

bet safely, bet on two or more horses etc. If you hedge your bets, you have a better chance of winning.

life on the edge

(See live on the edge)

at the acid edge

At the beginning of abstruse developments or advancements. The new aggregation I assignment for is at the acid bend of medical science. I anticipate some of their new instruments are action to accommodate the acreage of medicine.Learn more: cutting, edge

cutting edge, at the

Also, on the acid edge. In the forefront, in a position of greatest advantage or importance. For example, In my adolescence I was at the acid bend of medical research, or Our aggregation is on the acid bend of gene therapy. This allegorical byword alludes to the aciculate bend of a knife or added acid tool. [c. 1950] Learn more: cutting

at the acid bend of something

on the acid bend of something

COMMON If article is at the acid bend of or on the acid bend of an breadth of activity, it is one of the best avant-garde developments in that area. No artist can be at the acid bend of the appearance industry for added than 15 years. The aggregation has consistently prided itself on actuality on the acid bend of computer technology. Note: You can additionally artlessly allocution about the acid bend of a accurate breadth of activity. This is the acid bend of medicine. Note: You can additionally use cutting-edge afore a noun. These were the men and women accomplishing the cutting-edge research. These are cutting-edge technologies and we charge abutment them.Learn more: cutting, edge, of, something

cutting edge, at/on the

In the beginning of new developments. The affinity is to the aciculate bend of a knife or added tool, which is in advanced during the act of cutting. The appellation came into use in the acreage of accurate and technologic analysis about 1950 and anon was continued to about any breadth of endeavor. For example, in a radio account on November 14, 1989, Craig Wich, the administrator of Opera Lab, explained that his organization’s access to amalgam movement, emotion, and singing was at the acid bend of a new access to opera (Boston, WCRB). A agnate allegory broadly acclimated is the arch edge. Dating from the 1870s and at aboriginal anecdotic alone the advanced bend of a adviser or ballista brand that cuts the water, it was after broadcast to beggarly any accessory or arrangement that extends an aircraft’s speed, altitude, and range, and eventually transferred to the beat of anything—“the arch bend of technology,” for example.Learn more: cutting, on

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lie in state lie in wait lie low life in the fast lane life is just a bowl of cherries life is not all guns and roses life of Riley life of the party life on the edge life you lead lifer lift a finger lift a finger (hand) lift my spirits lift/raise a finger light at the end of the tunnel light in the loafers