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:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
FabijanFAH-bee-yahn (Croatian)Croatian, Slovene
ClovisKLO-vis (English), klo-VEES (French)Ancient Germanic (Latinized), French
Atilioah-TEEL-yoSpanish
Lamarlə-MAHREnglish, African American
PrzemkoPZHEM-kawPolish
Ewelina-Polish