网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 in-the-nick-of-time
释义

in the nick of time


idiom
at the last possible moment: 在紧要关头;在最后一刻
We got there just in the nick of time.我们刚好及时赶到那里。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Late
about timephrase
be/come/arrive late to the partyidiom
behindhand
belated
delayed
eleventh
last
late adopter
late developer
late in the dayidiom
nick
not a moment too soonidiom
overdue
owl
shut/close the stable/barn door after the horse has boltedidiom
the last minuteidiom
unpunctual
unpunctuality
until all hoursidiom
wire

Examples of in the nick of time


in the nick of time
But now, inthenickoftime, the political will is there.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
But they have been built only inthenickoftime.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
You are arriving inthenickoftime and, with your hard-earned experience, you can help rescue our democracy.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
We legislated just inthenickoftime.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I welcome that reply, which arrived inthenickoftime.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Happily, and inthenickoftime, we have presented to us the 1976 annual report.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
We did that just inthenickoftime.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
It was saved from them because, inthenickoftime, we realised that the contraction of the industry had to cease.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
That crash was averted by the milk marketing schemes which came into operation just inthenickoftime.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
And they arrived just inthenickoftime.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Perhaps the only reason why he remembered it inthenickoftime was that his wife did not want to remind him.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
First, it is remarkable that we have managed to squeeze it in just inthenickoftime.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The money is only just inthenickoftime.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
This proposal came inthenickoftime.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
This policy was introduced only inthenickoftime.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
See all examples of in the nick of time
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

随便看

 

反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2005-2024 fscai.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2024/12/23 2:50:38