"on the brink of exploding" is a correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation that is on the verge of becoming chaotic or uncontrollable. For example, "The streets of the city were on the brink of exploding as protests turned violent."
His status is on the brink of exploding still further.
The acting is terrific across the board, with the cast maintaining varying degrees of harassed distress, as all the characters hustle to keep their own lives in order; Shahab Hosseini especially stands out as the unemployed, beleaguered Hodjat, always on the brink of exploding with inarticulate despair.
What we said about Fiona Apple: "Over a musical backdrop of chimes, feedback and bursts of percussion, Every Single Night at times teeters on the brink of exploding with emotion ('I just want to feel everything,' Apple sings), but the restraint gives it power.
Gaining ever-increasing accessibility, these services are on the brink of exploding.
When the group decided to start filming in the mid-to-late 2000s, what they couldn't foresee was that drag was on the brink of exploding.
"They go into a shop and they're already on the brink of exploding and looking for something will push them over the edge.
Each day Sheik Sharif remains holed up in his hilltop palace, with millions of his people on the brink of starvation because of drought and grenades exploding just outside the palace gates, the euphoria that greeted his ascension slides into cynicism.
And so Albania remains clan- and crime-ridden, Serbia teeters on the brink of ultranationalistic expansion, Kosovo is a tinderbox waiting to explode.
Just as the health care system today lies perilously on the brink of combustion, the forest fire, which seemed harmless at first, was waiting to explode.
The fact that we seem to be a country on the brink of combustion, and we have been that way for so long, yet we never seem to explode.
A flare-up of Palestinian unrest spawned "Middle East on the Brink of War," a logo that had the entire screen rived by a jagged white crack that might have been lightning or your TV set exploding.
