Sentence examples of "au bord de" in French with translation "on the verge of"

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Elle est au bord de la crise de nerfs. She is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Apparemment son entreprise est au bord de la faillite. I hear his business is on the verge of ruin.
Elle était au bord des larmes. She was on the verge of crying.
Lors de mon adolescence, je détestais la vie et j'étais continuellement au bord du suicide, mais j'en étais écarté par le désir de connaître plus de mathématiques. In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.
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