brink of disaster
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbrinkanddisaster
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brink
noun[S]
uk/brɪŋk/us/brɪŋk/
the point where a new or different situation is about ...
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disaster
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈzɑː.stər/us/dɪˈzæs.tɚ/
(an event that results in) great harm, damage, or death, or ...
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(Definition ofbrinkanddisasterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As a woman of questionable morals, she seemed to stand by as her family teetered on thebrinkofdisaster.
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Playing hawk too often brings forests on thebrinkofdisaster.
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But they have brought us to thebrinkofdisasterwithout our knowing, and without our being warned.
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I spoke to local business people whose enterprises were brought to thebrinkofdisaster.
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There are certain branches of agriculture, at d certain districts, which are just now wobbling on thebrinkofdisaster.
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It was not by youth, which was rigorously excluded from power for 20 years, that we were conducted to thebrinkofdisaster.
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It has been brought back from thebrinkofdisasteron several occasions and was beginning to flower once again.
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Many regions of the world are teetering on thebrinkofdisaster.
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The tragedy is that the executive is drawing the membership unwillingly to thebrinkofdisaster.
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Many companies seem to reach thebrinkofdisasterbefore anybody has tried to get something done.
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And so they went back, or proposed to go back, to the very methods which had brought us all to thebrinkofdisaster.
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We were told then that the country was on thebrinkofdisaster.
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A year ago we were on thebrinkofdisaster.
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Events are moving rapidly, and the world, on thebrinkofdisaster, is waiting.
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The balance of terror has brought the world to thebrinkofdisaster.
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The fact that we could come to thatbrinkofdisasterin a constituency like mine is a lesson in itself.
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As things are at the moment, we are on thebrinkofdisaster.
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I wonder whether the country realises how close we have come to thebrinkofdisaster?
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Those companies are hardly on thebrinkofdisaster.
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At that time, the country was on thebrinkofdisaster.
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