all'ultimo momento, in extremis

Eleventh hour Idioma

at the eleventh hour

" at the last minute; almost too late. "

Eleventh hour

If something happens at the eleventh hour, it happens right at the last minute.

at the eleventh hour|eleventh|eleventh hour|hour

prep. phr. At the last possible time. Aunt Mathilda got married at the eleventh hour; after all, she was already 49 years old.

eleventh hour|eleventh|hour

adj. phr. Pertaining to the last minutes; the last opportunity to accomplish a task. The editors made several eleventh hour changes in the headlines of the morning paper.

the eleventh hour

The aftermost accessible moment or opportunity. Can be hyphenated if acclimated as a modifier afore a noun. I was abashed that they accomplished an acceding at the eleventh hour afterwards weeks of squabbling. I was abashed that they accomplished an eleventh-hour accommodation afterwards weeks of squabbling.Learn more: eleventh, hour

eleventh hour

The latest accessible time, as in We angry in our address at the eleventh hour. This appellation is anticipation to allude to the apologue of the laborers (Matthew 20:1-16), in which those workers assassin at the eleventh hour of a twelve-hour alive day were paid the aforementioned bulk as those who began in the aboriginal hour. [Early 1800s] Learn more: eleventh, hour

eleventh hour, at the

Just in time; at the aftermost accessible moment. This announcement occurs in the biblical apologue of the laborers (Matthew 20:1–16), in which those workers assassin at the eleventh hour of a twelve-hour day accustomed as abundant pay as those who began assignment in the aboriginal hour. Eric Partridge claimed that the accepted cliché does not allude to this adventure but offered no another source. The American artist Forceythe Willson (1837–67) wrote, “And I heard a Bugle sounding, as from some angelic Tower; and the aforementioned abstruse articulation said: ‘It is the Eleventh Hour!’” (“The Old Sergeant”). The ceasefire catastrophe World War I came into force at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Learn more: eleventh

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English Vocalbulary

at the expense of at the farthest at the foot of the mountain at the head of at the height at the helm at the highest level at the last gasp at the last minute at the last moment at the latest at the least at the market at the mercy of at the moment at the money at the most at the parting of the ways