in the nick of time
idiom
informal
: just before the last moment when something can be changed or something bad will happen
He decided to go just in the nick of time.
The ambulance arrived in the nick of time.
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Hundreds of tiny endangered fish were saved from the Palisades burn area — in the nick of time.
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Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Shooter Beck lighting fires all over the place before putting them out just in the nick of time.
—Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
In 1975, the station was added to the National Register of Historic Places, but the designation didn’t bring the terminal back to life—that would take another half a century of stops, starts and Ford largesse, just in the nick of time.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
Golden arrived in the nick of time, just six days before the Chiefs play the Houston Texans in the AFC Divisional Round at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on Saturday.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2025
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Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Shooter Beck lighting fires all over the place before putting them out just in the nick of time.
—Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
In 1975, the station was added to the National Register of Historic Places, but the designation didn’t bring the terminal back to life—that would take another half a century of stops, starts and Ford largesse, just in the nick of time.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
Golden arrived in the nick of time, just six days before the Chiefs play the Houston Texans in the AFC Divisional Round at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on Saturday.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2025
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“In the nick of time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20nick%20of%20time. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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