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in the nick of time en · ADP

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) At the last possible moment; at the last minute.
   • In the nick of time he lassoed with a trounce / the low-down villains who had stubbed our toes. 1990, James Broughton, Special Deliveries: New and Selected Poems, Seattle, Wash.: Broken Moon Press, →ISBN, page 12:
   • Happily for the Lakers, who were mincemeat without him, Nash is back in the nick of time, with the Knicks, who walked all over them in New York two weeks ago, in town for a Christmas Day game. 2012 December 24, Mark Heisler, “After Looking East to the Knicks, Nash Cut West to the Lakers”, in New York Times:
   • Sir Frances stopped midrant, and just in the nick of time, for his next words would have been "veriest whipster," 2004, Lover's Knot, pages 194, 202:
   • He finished writing his paper and slid it under the door just in the nick of time.

Deriveds

nick-of-time

Synonyms

just in time · eleventh hour · under the wire

Translations (37)

ar في اللحظة الأخيرة (at the last possible moment) · sv i elfte timmen (at the last possible moment) · ar في اللحظة الحاسمة (at the last possible moment) · nb i siste øyeblikk (at the last possible moment) · es en el último momento (at the last possible moment) · el στο παρά πέντε (at the last possible moment) · fr juste à temps (at the last possible moment) · tr son anda (at the last possible moment) · pl w samą porę (at the last possible moment) · srn ete wan ingiwiwiri (at the last possible moment) · sh u zadnji čas (at the last possible moment) · it all'ultimo minuto (at the last possible moment) · tr yumurta kapıya dayanınca (at the last possible moment) · de im letzten Augenblick (at the last possible moment) · ro la mustață (at the last possible moment) · lt pačiu laiku (at the last possible moment) · pt no último instante (at the last possible moment) · ar في اللحظة الحرجة (at the last possible moment) · is nógu snemma (at the last possible moment) · fi viime hetkessä (at the last possible moment) · nl op het nippertje (at the last possible moment) · sh u posljednji trenutak (at the last possible moment) · ar فِي آخِرِ لَحْظَةٍ (at the last possible moment) · sv i grevens tid (at the last possible moment) · it all'ultimo momento (at the last possible moment) · is í tæka tíð (at the last possible moment) · io justa-tempe (at the last possible moment) · nb i ellevte time (at the last possible moment) · cmn 趕在最後一刻 /赶在最后一刻 (at the last possible moment) · sv i sista ögonblicket (at the last possible moment) · sv i sista stund (at the last possible moment) · ru в после́дний моме́нт (at the last possible moment) · is á síðustu stundu (at the last possible moment) · nb i siste stund (at the last possible moment) · hu az utolsó pillanatban (at the last possible moment) · nb i grevens tid (at the last possible moment) · es como agua de mayo (at the last possible moment)