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under the wire

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[under the wire] {adv. phr.}

With a narrow time limit; in the last minute.

* /The journalist's new lead article on Russia was due in press at 5 P.M., and he got it in at 4:57, just under the wire./

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	time ⁵⁴⁹ {adv. phr.} ⁵⁸³

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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