Idiom
Just in the nick of time.
If you do something in the nick of time, you just manage to do it just in time, with seconds to spare.
Exact(1)
In their view, Germany has repeatedly resisted rescue initiatives over the past three years for as long as possible, only to join a compromise in the nick of time.Her continuing popularity at home means that Mrs Merkel could now afford to go slightly faster.
Similar(56)
As usual, Catherine advised the king, who had fled the city in the nick of time, to compromise and live to fight another day.
Just in the nick of time!
No longer did events take place "in the nick of time" but "in time's nick".
The Donegal man makes it in the nick of time.
My temperament had been restored in the nick of time.
Will the rescuers arrive in the nick of time?
MSF has arrived in the nick of time.
Those issues were apparently resolved in the nick of time.
In the nick of time, Bex turns up too!
(Spoiler: her BFFs rescue her in the nick of time).
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