be on the brink of

be on the brink of doing something

to be likely to do something very soon The club's manager dismissed reports that he was on the brink of buying Peter Beardsley.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Stein	-	Norwegian
Swanhilde	-	German
George	JORJ (English)	English, Romanian
'Orpah	-	Biblical Hebrew
Rasha	-	Arabic
Rita	REE-tə (English), REE-tah (German)	Italian, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese