O, bayılmak üzereydi.
- She was on verge of fainting.
O, tam uyumak üzereydi.
- He was just on the verge of going to sleep.
I was on the verge of tears.
Eating blowfish verges on insanity.
... was $1.80, $1.86. Why is that? Because the economy was on the verge of collapse, because ...