Idiom
last minute
Meaning
An arbitrary (non-specific) point in time, too close to a deadline to reasonably begin a critical task.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I finished my essay at the last minute.”
“They booked their flights at the last minute and paid twice the normal price.”
“The proposal, thrown together at the last minute by exhausted interns, was full of errors that any careful review would have caught.”
Examples
simple
“I finished my essay at the last minute.”
contextual
“They booked their flights at the last minute and paid twice the normal price.”
complex
“The proposal, thrown together at the last minute by exhausted interns, was full of errors that any careful review would have caught.”
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