eleventh-hour

alternative 11th-hour

1. idiomaticnot comparableJust before the moment that it is too late; in the nick of time; last-minute.

   Cal State Fullerton students Chenglin Lee and Samuel Ortiz saved me with eleventh-hour bibliographic assistance.

   2018, Nicole Seymour, “Acknowledgments”, in Bad Environmentalism, page 236

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   Eleventh-hour executive changes are not unique to this outgoing Administration — President Bill Clinton launched a number himself before leaving office.

   2008 November 5, Bryan Walsh, “George W. Bush's Last Environmental Stand”, in Time

   It had its culture-war fodder and circumstantial peculiarity — the 11th-hour Kamala Harris ascension, Trump’s third straight nomination — but in the end it proved rather ordinary.

   2025 January 25, Ross Barkan, “Goodbye, ‘Resistance.’ The Era of Hyperpolitics Is Over.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN