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in the nick of time

ADVERB
  1. at the last possible moment
    she was saved in the nick of time

How To Use in the nick of time In A Sentence

  • she was saved in the nick of time
  • Sam and Flick dived aside in the nick of time, just before the entire wooden shelf splintered against the floor.
  • It came in the nick of time. Times, Sunday Times
  • This welcome boost came just in the nick of time. Times, Sunday Times
  • I managed to hitch a ride on Josh's airplane just in the nick of time.
  • Father Reilly’s after reading it in gallous Latin, and “It’s come in the nick of time, ” says he; “so I’ll wed them in a hurry, dreading that young gaffer who’d capsize the stars. Act Three
  • Bourchier's battery coming up in the nick of time, the hostile guns were soon silenced, and Gough, having succeeded in getting through the _jhil_, made a most plucky charge, in which he captured two guns and killed a number of the enemy. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
  • She did, and in the nick of time. Times, Sunday Times
  • Relieved of the weight upon his shoulders, Clen had a fighting chance for his life, but it is doubtful if he would have won had it not been that the Indian, missing him at last, returned in the nick of time, and with the aid of a loop of _babiche_, succeeded in drawing him from the water. The Gold Girl
  • Anyway, to cut a long story very short, the gutters made it up onto the house and they sloped the right way because I realised in the nick of time that water does not flow uphill.
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