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be on the point of (doing) something
idiom
B2
to be going to do something very soon: 即将…之时，正要…之时
As we were on the point of giving up hope, a letter arrived.正当我们要放弃希望之时，来了一封信。
She was so tired that she was on the point of collapse.她累得要垮掉了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
About to happen
(just) around the corneridiom
about
at handidiom
be ready to rollidiom
beckon
brew
come up
corner
horizon
impending
in the airidiom
in the pipelineidiom
in-store
loom
ready
stare
stare someone in the faceidiom
store
teeter
teeter on the brink/edge of somethingidiom
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