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last minute

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the last minute
the last possible opportunity for doing something. He always waits until the last minute to shop for presents.
Usage notes: used with until or till, as in the example, or with at: At the last minute, we found our tickets.
See also: last, minute

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take this gentleman's luggage -- Dover line twelve o'clock train -- that's it," and without waiting for another word Jerry wheeled me round to make room for other cabs that were dashing up at the last minute, and drew up on one side till the crush was past.
I WASN'T flirting with him -- I honestly thought I cared up to the last minute -- and then -- well, I just knew I NEVER could marry him.
I know it's disgraceful, but I go to sleep at the opera, and I sit out the opera bouffe to the last minute, and enjoy it.
 
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