on the verge of

on the verge of

1. Almost at the beginning of.

   He was finally on the verge of success.

   Every time I thought he was on the verge of telling us, he decided to say something else instead.

• on the brink of
• on the point of

• “on the verge of” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• “on the verge of something” (US) / “on the verge of something” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “be on the verge of something” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.