in the nick of time

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   at the very last moment; just in time before sth bad happens

   Just in the nick of time. Now we'll get justice.

   Go? Why, you just got here. In the nick of time, too.

In the movies · 3

• Go? Why, you just got here. In the nick of time, too.Toy Story 32010
• You arrived just in the nick of time.Spellbound1945
• Just in the nick of time. Now we'll get justice.Way Out West1937
• In the nick of time too.Cast Away2000
• Just in the nick of time, too.Hell or High Water2016

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