over the edge

Called Agnes here, as she was in her father’s will, she is played by Jessie Buckley in a performance that tips over the edge from heartfelt into cloying, as does the film.

“If they don’t cut, they might push the labor market over the edge and have a recession,” Sahm said.

Fearlessly she leaned over the edge of the basket, searching the ground below.

For some reason this was what pushed her “over the edge,” as they say nowadays, and she began to cry in earnest.

“Who remembers the words to the Swanburne song?” she called out gaily as she swung her legs over the edge of the cot and gave her arms a good stretch.