Definition of Brink

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Definition of Brink
	Brink The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. Related Definitions: Also, As, Bank, Border, Brink, Chasm, Edge, Fig, Margin, Of, Or, Pit, Place, Precipice, River, Steep, The, Verge

Brink Quotations

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Napoleon Hill

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.
Dean Koontz

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.
Louis Farrakhan

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.
Giacomo Casanova

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!
Rip Taylor

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.
Bruce Sterling

When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.
Jane Byrne

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
Cate Blanchett

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.
Hunter Tylo

Brink Translations

brink in German is Rand
brink in Hungarian is meredek part
brink in Swedish is rand, kant

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