be on the threshold of (something)

To be about to do something; to be about to happen. I can't believe that my little girl is actually on the threshold of marriage. I'm confident that our team is on the threshold of a major scientific breakthrough.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Kamen	-	Bulgarian
Jadranko	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
Astrid	AH-strid (Swedish), AH-stree (Norwegian), AHS-trit (German)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French
Tomomi	to-mo-mee	Japanese
Jeong-Hui	jung-hee	Korean
Humayra	-	Arabic