I'd like to say, you make your decision on that threshold question, and it yields your answer.
You have to look at everything else he's doing and ask, 'Has he crossed over that threshold?'
Packwood was eventually convinced to come to the Senate, but he insisted that they carry him across the threshold.
For some, that threshold might be a piece of bread or an ice cream cone once in a while.
There remains the threshold question of whether he is competent to stand trial or to be punished.
We have crossed the threshold of this house together for the last time.
When Thor and Loki stepped across the threshold Thrym went to welcome them.
In two minutes the mullah returned and threw a mat over the threshold.
The boy must have read them out as he and the Spirit crossed the threshold.
Silence fell on her as she crossed the threshold, but she glowered on us with fierce eyes.
Old English þrescold, þærscwold, þerxold "doorsill, point of entering," first element related to Old English þrescan (see thresh), with its original sense of "tread, trample." Second element of unknown origin and much transformed in all the Germanic languages; in English it probably has been altered to conform to hold, but the oft-repeated story that the threshold was a barrier placed at the doorway to hold the chaff flooring in the room is mere folk etymology. Cognates include Old Norse þreskjoldr, Swedish tröskel, Old High German driscufli, German dialectal drischaufel.
threshold thresh·old (thrěsh'ōld', -hōld')
n.
The place or point of beginning; the outset.
The lowest point at which a stimulus begins to produce a sensation.
The minimal stimulus that produces excitation of any structure, eliciting a motor response.
(1.) Heb. miphtan, probably a projecting beam at a higher point than the threshold proper (1 Sam. 5:4,5; Ezek. 9:3; 10:4,18; 46:2; 47:1); also rendered "door" and "door-post." (2.) 'Asuppim, pl. (Neh. 12:25), rendered correctly "storehouses" in the Revised Version. In 1 Chr. 26:15, 17 the Authorized Version retains the word as a proper name, while in the Revised Version it is translated "storehouses."
