brinks

on the brink of the grave

the brink of a cliff.

The company is on the brink of bankruptcy.

at the brink of the pond I hesitated.

the country was on the brink of a constitutional crisis.

she was on the very brink of womanhood.

The tree grew on the brink of the cliff.

The country is teetering on the brink of civil war.

the invasion took Europe to the brink of war.

be poised on the brink of disaster

on the brink of falling in love).

our whims have brought us to the brink of biocide.

The two countries were poised on the brink of war.

carriages go ruining over the brink from time to time.

the lumina polygonous or irregular polygonous, the brink of the lumina smooth, rarely verrucate.

stood on the brink of the cliff); in an extended sense it indicates the likelihood or imminence of a sudden change (

These monsters would not lay down their cleavers even when on the brink of their own destruction.

The classic case is someone on the brink of foreclosure . some investors check court records of divorces arrearages ,upcoming bankruptcy proceedings to find such people .