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at the last minute
Idioms and Phrases
At the latest possible moment or opportunity. For example, Jim couldn't get a reservation because he had called at the last minute . Also see at the latest ; eleventh hour .Example Sentences
“I don’t know why this happened. Honestly, I was there at the last minute of his life. I saw his face. I saw his eyes,” Yaghoubi told ABC-7.
There is also the Green Party, which was disqualified at the last minute from the debate for not running enough candidates.
She was slotted in as a headliner at the last minute after Beyoncé pulled out due to her second pregnancy.
The future of the fund had been in doubt, until the government confirmed at the last minute that it would continue in 2025/26.
But at the last minute they not only appear but propose, saving the Benton daughters from a fate worse than spinsterhood: family insolvency.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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