on shaky ground
likelytofail:
At least onefactoryis onshakyground, and thetownexpectsmore toshutdown.
Examplesofon shaky ground
on shaky ground
Were this not the case, our legal system would indeed beonshakyground.
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Those values then are implanted in already existing words whose comparatively low frequency and learned associations put usonshakygroundwhen we want to say them.
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I have always found that one isonshakygroundwhen giving examples.
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I thought that he wasonshakygroundbecause in one part of his speech he was obviously reading verbatim from a prepared text.
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I am notonshakygroundat all.
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The legal basis for collecting tolls now seems to beonshakyground.
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One thing is clear: where cultural freedom is at risk, the free market is alsoonshakyground.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
By 1937 the marriage wasonshakyground.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It appears their marriage isonshakyground.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.So the confrontation is already happening occurringonshakyground.
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