down-to-the-wire

*down-to-the-wire

Fig. waiting until the very last moment; right up to the deadline. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) It came down-to-the-wire before I turned the proposal in. We went right down-to-the-wire on that one.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Maayan	-	Hebrew
Ernesto	-	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Torkel	-	Norwegian, Swedish
Zyanya	-	Native American, Zapotec
Shirin	-	Persian
Kaylee	KAY-lee	English (Modern)