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JUST IN TIME
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At the last possible moment
Example:
she was saved in the nick of time
Synonyms:
in the nick of time; just in time
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Context examples:
“Holmes,” I cried, “I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible crime.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The girls came just in time; they held him fast and tried to free his beard from the line, but all in vain, beard and line were entangled fast together.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Eager to save her mother from every unnecessary moment's horrible suspense, she ran immediately into the hall, and reached the outward door just in time to receive and support her as she entered it.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Sometimes in his rage he would take me for one of them, and come at me, mouthing as if he were going to tear me in pieces; then, remembering me, just in time, would dive into the shop, and lie upon his bed, as I thought from the sound of his voice, yelling in a frantic way, to his own windy tune, the Death of Nelson; with an Oh! before every line, and innumerable Goroos interspersed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The husband had died just in time to be spared the full knowledge of it.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
As she filled away and heeled, the arm-chair began to slide across the cabin floor, and I sprang for it just in time to prevent the rescued woman from being spilled out.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I was just in time to catch her as she fell forward in a faint.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
To the theatre he went, and reached it just in time to witness the first meeting of his father and his friend.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
If you want a real relationship, you can find one when this planet of unconditional love moves forward at month’s end, just in time for holiday festivities.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
For a minute Jo stood still with a strange feeling in her heart, then she resolved to go on, but something held and turned her round, just in time to see Amy throw up her hands and go down, with a sudden crash of rotten ice, the splash of water, and a cry that made Jo's heart stand still with fear.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
