TODAY'S IDIOM: IN THE NICK OF TIME

" IN THE NICK OF TIME "

Means just at the critical moment, just in time, not too late but very close!

Example: I got to the pharmacy just in the nick of time. It's a good thing because I really need this medicine.

Justo a tiempo.

• I almost missed the train but I got to the station just in the nick of time / Yo casi perdí el tren, pero llegué a la estación justo a tiempo.

• The doctor arrived in the nick of time, the patient's life was saved / El médico llegó justo a tiempo, la vida del paciente se salvó.

Additional examples:

• I reached the airport in the very nick of time and made my flight.

• We got there just in the nick of time; a minute later and she'd have left. 

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