on the borderline

He said students "on the borderline" felt the impact.

“Not once did anybody say ‘Hey Louis, you’re on the borderline or you should cool it or whatever’… they all knew what was happening.”

But, Wang says, "we are on the borderline. If fires increase or become more frequent, our air quality will get worse."

Mariupol's mayor, Vadym Boychenko, told the BBC that people there were "on the borderline between life and death".

Hernández’s “The Kissing Bug,” her investigation into a mysterious disease that recently won the PEN/Jean Stein award for the best book of 2021, is a finalist in the bisexual nonfiction category, which also includes Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s “Borealis,” Hasanthika Sirisena’s “Dark Tourist,” Jen Winston’s “Greedy” and Courtney Cook’s “The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces.”