Meaning of in the nick of time in English
in the nick of time
- about time phrase
- be/come/arrive late to the party idiom
- behindhand
- belated
- delayed
- eleventh
- last
- late adopter
- late developer
- late in the day idiom
- nick
- not a moment too soon idiom
- overdue
- owl
- shut/close the stable/barn door after the horse has bolted idiom
- the last minute idiom
- unpunctual
- unpunctuality
- until all hours idiom
- wire
Examples of in the nick of time
in the nick of time
But now, in the nick of time, the political will is there.
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But they have been built only in the nick of time.
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You are arriving in the nick of time and, with your hard-earned experience, you can help rescue our democracy.
We legislated just in the nick of time.
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I welcome that reply, which arrived in the nick of time.
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Happily, and in the nick of time, we have presented to us the 1976 annual report.
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We did that just in the nick of time.
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It was saved from them because, in the nick of time, we realised that the contraction of the industry had to cease.
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That crash was averted by the milk marketing schemes which came into operation just in the nick of time.
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And they arrived just in the nick of time.
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Perhaps the only reason why he remembered it in the nick of time was that his wife did not want to remind him.
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First, it is remarkable that we have managed to squeeze it in just in the nick of time.
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The money is only just in the nick of time.
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This proposal came in the nick of time.
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This policy was introduced only in the nick of time.
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son anda, ucu ucuna, son dakikada…
juste à temps…
op het nippertje…
v posledním okamžiku, jako na zavolanou…
i sidste øjeblik…
tepat pada waktunya…
ทันเวลาพอดี…
vừa đúng lúc…
w ostatniej chwili, w samą porę…
i grevens tid, precis i tid…
tepat pada masanya…
gerade zur rechten Zeit…
i siste liten, i grevens tid…
якраз вчасно…
как раз вовремя, в последний момент…
