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just in the nick of time

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The congressional theater around federal spending fights that have repeatedly brought the government to the brink of a disastrous shutdown over the past six months, only to be resolved just in the nick of time to avoid one, has become very predictable.

The couple seemed to get their “I Dos” done just in the nick of time.

But now, just in the nick of time, the team is finally doing something inspiring.

From Slate

"We escaped just in the nick of time. If we hadn't, we would be dead."

From BBC

Sitting opposite Emhoff in the map room was Adrien Brody, arriving just in the nick of time with his partner, the designer Georgina Chapman.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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