IN THE NICK OF TIME Definition & Meaning

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in the nick of time

Also, just in time. At the last moment, as in The police arrived in the nick of time, or He got there just in time for dinner. The first term began life as in the nick and dates from the 1500s, when nick meant “the critical moment” (a meaning now obsolete). The second employs just in the sense of “precisely” or “closely,” a usage applied to time since the 1500s. Also see in time, def. 1.

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It was all part of a liberation effort pulled off in the nick of time.

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Help may come in the nick of time, with the first rain in months expected this weekend in Los Angeles County.

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A Hawaii national park has issued a new warning to tourists after a toddler was grabbed "in the nick of time" from falling off the rim of an erupting volcano.

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The party logo was a print out on A4 paper sticky taped to it in the nick of time.

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He beat the count in the nick of time but the writing was on the wall.

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in the neighborhood of in the offing

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