set on edge in English
ervous, anxious
Use "set on edge" in a sentence
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1. Any man eating sour grapes will have his own teeth set on edge.”
2. 29 “In those days they will no longer say, ‘The fathers ate sour grapes, but the teeth of the sons were set on edge.’
3. An ancient Hebrew proverb says: “Fathers are the ones that eat unripe grapes, but it is the teeth of the sons that get set on edge.”