"sur le point de" meaning in All languages combined

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  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "prep",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He was about to cry.",
          "text": "Il était sur le point de pleurer.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "He waited patiently for her to wash the dishes and was even about to help her.",
          "ref": "1957, Georges Simenon, Maigret s'amuse, CMI Publishing, published 2020, page 110",
          "text": "Il attendit patiemment qu’elle eût fait la vaisselle et il fut même sur le point de l’aider.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Let us note that there are some examples of a mixed type between the two races; here a putto crowned with ivy whose head is reminiscent of a young satyr, or, better yet, a putto on the verge of transforming into a young satyr […]",
          "ref": "1969, Le putto dans l'art romain [The putto in Roman art], Brussels: éd. Latomus, page 17",
          "text": "Notons qu’il existe, entre les deux races, quelques exemples d’un type mixte : voici un putto couronné de lierre dont la tête fait penser à celle d’un satyreau, ou, mieux encore, un putto sur le point de se métamorphoser en satyreau, […]",
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      "glosses": [
        "on the brink of; on the verge of, about to, on the point of"
      ],
      "id": "en-sur_le_point_de-fr-prep-8i6-Ngdt",
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        [
          "on the brink of",
          "on the brink of"
        ],
        [
          "on the verge of",
          "on the verge of"
        ],
        [
          "about to",
          "about to"
        ],
        [
          "on the point of",
          "on the point of"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "en passe de"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/syʁ lə pwɛ̃ də/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sur le point de"
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  "pos": "prep",
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        {
          "english": "He was about to cry.",
          "text": "Il était sur le point de pleurer.",
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        },
        {
          "english": "He waited patiently for her to wash the dishes and was even about to help her.",
          "ref": "1957, Georges Simenon, Maigret s'amuse, CMI Publishing, published 2020, page 110",
          "text": "Il attendit patiemment qu’elle eût fait la vaisselle et il fut même sur le point de l’aider.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "english": "Let us note that there are some examples of a mixed type between the two races; here a putto crowned with ivy whose head is reminiscent of a young satyr, or, better yet, a putto on the verge of transforming into a young satyr […]",
          "ref": "1969, Le putto dans l'art romain [The putto in Roman art], Brussels: éd. Latomus, page 17",
          "text": "Notons qu’il existe, entre les deux races, quelques exemples d’un type mixte : voici un putto couronné de lierre dont la tête fait penser à celle d’un satyreau, ou, mieux encore, un putto sur le point de se métamorphoser en satyreau, […]",
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      "glosses": [
        "on the brink of; on the verge of, about to, on the point of"
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          "on the brink of",
          "on the brink of"
        ],
        [
          "on the verge of",
          "on the verge of"
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          "about to",
          "about to"
        ],
        [
          "on the point of",
          "on the point of"
        ]
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "en passe de"
        }
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    {
      "ipa": "/syʁ lə pwɛ̃ də/"
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  "word": "sur le point de"
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