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on the verge of

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on the verge of doing something
almost doing or experiencing something. He was on the verge of making a comment but stopped, realizing it would be a mistake.


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I have been to Paris a hundred times, and it never fails to give me a thrill of excitement; I can never walk its streets without feeling myself on the verge of adventure.
"I tell you we are on the verge of the unknown," he insisted.
During the war in Italy he is several times on the verge of destruction and each time is saved in an unexpected manner.
 
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