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
Mavourneen	-	Irish
WilmǢR	-	Anglo-Saxon
Malte	MAHL-tə (German)	Danish, Swedish, German
Minoru	mee-no-ṙoo	Japanese
Bojana	-	Slovene, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian
Hege	HE-ge	Norwegian, Danish