eleventh hour
Meaning: Late or last-minute.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Category: Daily Life
Origin: Down to the wire and in the nick of time convey a greater sense of being just barely in time than the eleventh hour.
More idioms — Daily Life
- eternal triangle — A situation in which two men love the same woman or two women love the same man.
- and harry every tom, dick — Everyone.
- fair and square — Honest(ly).
- get someone a fair shake — To give someone or something a chance to prove itself.
- fair to middling — Average; neither good nor bad.
- fall by the wayside — To drop out of the situation.
More English idioms
- fall for something — To be deceived or believe an unlikely story.
- fall for someone — To be in love with a person.
- fall off the wagon — To lose control of oneself and engage in a compulsive behavior.
- fall on deaf ears — To be heard but ignored, or to be heard but to have no effect.
- feather one's nest — To build up one's riches, usually quietly and perhaps by some unethical method (sentence…
- far cry from something — Much less than what was expected or anticipated.
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