Be on the ragged edge American informal verb phrase
If you are on the ragged edge, you are going to experience failure or bad feelings.
She was on the ragged of despair when she got rejected by her dream college.
The company is running on the ragged edge financially.
After 2 weeks of training in the desert, Jane is on the ragged edge of exhaustion.
To quit; to give up, stop doing something because you know that you cannot succeed; admit defeat
This idiom is often used to express that you should accept an unpleasant situation or event because you cannot change it.
Once something has been done, you can do nothing but face the consequences.
The verb "be" should be conjugated according to its tense.