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Last-minute

adjective

Just before a deadline; at the last minute.

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Etymology of 'Last-minute'

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"Last-minute" Quotes from Famous Books

... through the unknown Benares SADHU outside the compound of the pundit's home; the vision of Divine Mother and Her majestic words of love; Her swift heed through Master Mahasaya to my trifling embarrassments; the last-minute guidance which materialized my high school diploma; and the ultimate boon, my living Master from the mist of lifelong dreams. Never could I admit my "philosophy" unequal to any tussle on the world's ...

— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... last look at the horses, and then with a queer shuffling trot he hurried to the mob that was surging and pushing about the bookmakers. Allis noted with minute observance each little act in this pantomime of the last-minute plunge. Just beneath where she sat two men were having a most energetic duel of words. A slim, darkskinned youth, across whose fox-like face was written in large letters the word "Tout," was hammering into his obdurate companion the impossibility of some certain horse ...

— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser

Words linked to "Last-minute" : unpunctual