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catachresis

n.
1.strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')

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    on the verge of (doing something)
    just about to do something
    I was on the verge of quitting my job when I suddenly changed my mind.



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