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in the nick of time

in the nick of time prepositional phrase: at the last possible moment; at the last minute.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) At the last possible moment; at the last minute.
    • He finished writing his paper and slid it under the door just in the nick of time.
    • In the nick of time he lassoed with a trounce / the low-down villains who had stubbed our toes.1990, James Broughton, Special Deliveries: New and Selected Poems, Seattle, Wash.: Broken Moon Press, →ISBN, page 12

in the nick of time meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

in the nick of time in Urdu

عین وقت پر

in the nick of time in Bengali

শেষ সম্ভাব্য মুহূর্তে, শেষ মুহূর্তে

in the nick of time in Malayalam

just in time, not a moment too soon, at the critical moment
നിർണ്ണായകനിമിഷത്തിൽ, കൃത്യസമയത്ത്, തക്കസമയത്ത്, നിമിഷംപോലും തെറ്റാതെ, അതേനിമിഷത്തിൽ തന്നെ, ശരിക്കും ആസമയത്ത്

in the nick of time in Kannada

ಆಕ್ಷಣಕ್ಕೆ, ಸರಿಯಾದ ಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ
More languagesFewer languages
in the nick of time in Arabic
فِي آخِرِ لَحْظَةٍ fī ʔāḵiri laḥẓatin, في اللحظة الأخيرة, في اللحظة الحاسمة, في اللحظة الحرجة

Examples of in the nick of time in a sentence

  • Sir Frances stopped midrant, and just in the nick of time, for his next words would have been "veriest whipster,"2004, Lover's Knot, pages 194, 202:
  • Happily for the Lakers, who were mincemeat without him, Nash is back in the nick of time, with the Knicks, who walked all over them in New York two weeks ago, in town for a Christmas Day game.2012 December 24, Mark Heisler, “After Looking East to the Knicks, Nash Cut West to the Lakers”, in New York Times:

Synonyms of in the nick of time

Words formed from in the nick of time

Questions about in the nick of time

What does in the nick of time mean?
In the nick of time means at the last possible moment; at the last minute.
What is in the nick of time in Urdu?
In the nick of time in Urdu is عین وقت پر. See In the nick of time meaning in Urdu.
How do you use in the nick of time in a sentence?
Sir Frances stopped midrant, and just in the nick of time, for his next words would have been "veriest whipster,"
What part of speech is in the nick of time?
In the nick of time is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the nick of time in the dictionary

  1. in the nature of things
  2. in the near future
  3. in the neighborhood of
  4. in the neighbourhood of
  5. in the nick
  6. in the nick of time
  7. in the nip
  8. in the nuddie
  9. in the nuddy
  10. in the nude
  11. in the offing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in the nick of time (page history and authors); in the nick of time (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); in the nick of time (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); in the nick of time (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); in the nick of time (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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