Verbs | |||||||
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| to teeter | teetered, teetered | | taumeln | taumelte, getaumelt | | ||||||
| to teeter | teetered, teetered | | staksen | stakste, gestakst | [coll.] | ||||||
| to teeter | teetered, teetered | (Amer.) regional | wippen | wippte, gewippt | | ||||||
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Nouns | |||||||
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| teeter-totter | die Wippe pl.: die Wippen | ||||||
Phrases / Collocations | |||||||
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| to teeter on the brink of collapse | kurz vor dem Aus stehen | ||||||
| to teeter on the brink of disaster | sichacc. am Rande einer Katastrophe befinden | ||||||
| to teeter on a knife edge (or: knife-edge) | auf Messers Schneide stehen | ||||||
| to teeter on the brink of the abyss | sichacc. am Rande des Abgrunds bewegen [fig.] | ||||||
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