idiomlikelytofail:At least onefactoryis onshakyground, and thetownexpectsmore toshutdown.(Definition ofon shaky groundfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofon shaky ground
on shaky groundWere this not the case, our legal system would indeed beonshakyground.From theCambridge English CorpusThose values then are implanted in already existing words whose comparatively low frequency and learned associations put usonshakygroundwhen we want to say them.From theCambridge English CorpusI have always found that one isonshakygroundwhen giving examples.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I thought that he wasonshakygroundbecause in one part of his speech he was obviously reading verbatim from a prepared text.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I am notonshakygroundat all.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0The legal basis for collecting tolls now seems to beonshakyground.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0One thing is clear: where cultural freedom is at risk, the free market is alsoonshakyground.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishBy 1937 the marriage wasonshakyground.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It appears their marriage isonshakyground.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.So the confrontation is already happening occurringonshakyground.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/on-shaky-ground##
