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
Fabijan	FAH-bee-yahn (Croatian)	Croatian, Slovene
Clovis	KLO-vis (English), klo-VEES (French)	Ancient Germanic (Latinized), French
Atilio	ah-TEEL-yo	Spanish
Lamar	lə-MAHR	English, African American
Przemko	PZHEM-kaw	Polish
Ewelina	-	Polish