on the brink (of doing something)

on the brink (of doing something)
on the brink (of doing something)
Fig. on the verge of doing something; almost to the point of doing something. •

I was on the brink of selling my car to make ends meet when the tax refund came in the mail.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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