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English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Prepositional phrase
in the nick of time
- (idiomatic) At the last possible moment; at the last minute.
- Synonyms: eleventh hour, under the wire, just in time; see also Thesaurus:just in time
He finished writing his paper and slid it under the door just in the nick of time.
Derived terms
Translations
at the last possible moment
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: op het nippertje
- Finnish: viime hetkessä
- French: juste à temps (fr)
- German: im letzten Augenblick
- Greek: στο παρά πέντε (el) (sto pará pénte)
- Hungarian: az utolsó pillanatban
- Icelandic: á síðustu stundu, nógu snemma, í tæka tíð
- Ido: justa-tempe
- Italian: all'ultimo momento, all'ultimo minuto
- Lithuanian: pačiu laiku
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: i siste stund, i ellevte time, i siste øyeblikk, i grevens tid (no)
- Polish: w samą porę
- Portuguese: no (pt) último (pt) instante (pt)
- Romanian: la mustață
- Russian: в после́дний моме́нт (v poslédnij momént)
- Serbo-Croatian: u zadnji čas, u posljednji trenutak
- Spanish: en el último momento
- Sranan Tongo: ete wan ingiwiwiri
- Swedish: i sista stund (sv), i elfte timmen (sv), i sista ögonblicket (sv), i grevens tid (sv)
- Turkish: son anda, (idiomatic) yumurta kapıya dayanınca
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