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Italian
Etymology
Literally, “at the last minute”.
Prepositional phrase
all'ultimo minuto
- (idiomatic) at the last minute
2020, Barack Obama, chapter 27, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:A Cape Canaveral ci attendeva una delusione: la NASA aveva annullato all'ultimo minuto il lancio dello shuttle a causa di problemi a un motore ausiliario.- In Cape Canaveral, we were disappointed to learn that NASA had been forced to scrub the space shuttle launch at the last minute due to problems in an auxiliary power unit...
- (literally, “At Cape Canaveral a disappointment was waiting for us: NASA had cancelled the shuttle launch at the last minute due to problems to an auxilary motor.”)