in the nick of time
Intermedio alto (B2) informal
Just before it was too late.
"The firefighters arrived in the nick of time to save the building."
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just in the nick of time as the building
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reached down in the nick of time and heaved him up.
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onto a deluded belief that they would appear up just in the nick of time.