英语词汇“in the nick of time”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	in the nick of time
释义	in the nick of time SEE SYNONYMS FOR in the nick of time ON THESAURUS.COM Also, just in time. At the last moment, as in The police arrived in the nick of time, or He got there just in time for dinner. The first term began life as in the nick and dates from the 1500s, when nick meant “the critical moment” (a meaning now obsolete). The second employs just in the sense of “precisely” or “closely,” a usage applied to time since the 1500s. Also see in time, def. 1. Words nearby in the nick of time in the mouth, in the name of, in the near future, in the neck, in the neighborhood of, in the nick of time, in the offing, in the pink, in the pipeline, in the public eye, in the raw The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to in the nick of time eleventh hour, under the wire, at the last minute, just in time
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in the nick of time