fine edge
Blade's cutting line
A fine edge is a blade sharpened to maximum keenness—thin enough to cut cleanly with minimal pressure.
The phrase extends to anything honed to peak effectiveness or precision: Her argument had a fine edge to it.
To walk a fine edge is to maintain a precarious balance: He's walking a fine edge between confidence and arrogance.
- razorBlade for removing hair
- razor sharpExtremely fine edge
- bladeFlat cutting edge
- sharpFine-edged, or astute
- honedSharpened or refined
keen · surgical precision · precision · cutting · sliver · paper thin · thin · delicate · margin · thin margin · brink · boundary · whetstone · scalpel · sharpened · slicing · hairline · crisp
- sharpnesssharpness, keenness, point, acuity, precision
- sharp edgesknife blade, razor blade, scalpel, box cutter, axe blade
- compositingcompositing, alpha channel, chroma key, green screen, blue screen
- wicketkeepingwicketkeeper, keeper, stumping, byes, catches