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ELEVENTH HOUR

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• ELEVENTH HOUR (noun)
The noun ELEVENTH HOUR has 1 sense:

1. the latest possible moment

Familiarity information: ELEVENTH HOUR used as a noun is very rare.

• ELEVENTH HOUR (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The latest possible moment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

eleventh hour; last minute

Context examples:

money became available at the eleventh hour / at the last minute the government changed the rules

Hypernyms ("eleventh hour" is a kind of...):

instant; minute; moment; second (a particular point in time)

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(English proverb)
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
(Native American proverb, Cherokee)
"Lamb in the spring, snow in the winter."
(Armenian proverb)
"Forbidden fruit is the sweetest."
(Czech proverb)

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