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Thank you so much. I sincerely appreciate it. Today's expression is excellent. You can use it today. Or tomorrow or the next day. Well, soon. It is on the edge.

To be on the edge, E, D, G, E. So what does it mean to be on the edge? Well, imagine you go up a high mountain. And at the top of the mountain, on one side, it's a nice hill that you climbed, but on the other side, it just goes down, like 500 meters, straight down.

And you are standing right there.

If you took one more step, you would fall 500 meters.

You are standing on the edge.

Okay?

So that's what the edge means.

On the edge.

So imagine, do you feel safe when you are on the edge?

No, it's very dangerous. It's very risky. Here's a difficult word. It's very precarious.

P-R-E-C-A-R-I-O-U-S. So if somebody is on the edge, they're in a very dangerous or a very risky situation.

But it can also mean a very exciting or a very nervous situation.

So another situation, imagine you're watching the World Cup. Now, I'm an American, and today I was watching

the World Cup game between the U.S. and Germany. And, uh, oh man, if you watched the game, it really, Germany did a great job.

Their offense was really tough.

And I don't know, our guys were swimming.

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