| 单词 | nick of time |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(the) nick of time (also occasionally opportunity, etc.) b. In (the) nick of time (also occasionally opportunity, etc.) in the same sense. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > critical or decisive moment articlea1398 prick?c1422 crise?1541 push1563 in the nick1565 jump1598 concurrence1605 cardo1609 (the) nick of time (also occasionally opportunity, etc.)1610 edgea1616 climacterical1628 climacteric1633 in the nick-time1650 moment1666 turning-point1836 watershed1854 psychological moment1871 psychical moment1888 moment of truth1932 crunch1939 cruncher1947 high noon1955 break point1959 defining moment1967 midnight1976 1610 J. Day Day's Festivals (1615) i. 20 Even in this nicke of time, this very, very instant. 1612 R. Carpenter Soules Sentinel 40 [He] came in the nicke of opportunity to beg grace. c1625 Partiall Law (1908) v. iv. 104 This unexpected comming of your friends So in the nicke of time is a good omen. 1643 J. Angier Lancashires Valley of Achor 19 [We] came in the nick of time to relieve the well-affected in Preston. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 179 If he had not gone down at the very nick of time, the Ship could not have failed of being very quickly blown up. a1707 S. Patrick Auto-biogr. (1839) 179 I look upon it as a singular providence of God, that Dr. Harris..should come in at that nick of time. 1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. Pref. 57 There is one season and nick of time, wherein they will allow [etc.]. 1757 G. Washington Let. 10 Sept. in Writings (1931) II. 125 That [tobacco]..was of the best Sweetscented, neatly handled; and must if the Ship arriv'd Safe get to Market in the Nick of time. 1818 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Poets (1870) viii. 200 He unexpectedly appears just in the nick of time, after years of absence. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxxv. 299 It was simply the nick of time which gave it to him. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. vii. 118 The following note..reached the young man's hands in the very nick of time. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Footnote to Hist. x The Adler, cast free in the nick of opportunity, had been thrown upon the top. 1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xiv. 145 If Mr. Andrews hadn't caught her by her sash just in the nick of time she'd have fallen in. 1944 K. B. Hathaway Little Locksmith iv. 15 Then when all seems lost—suddenly out of the pocket he comes, remembered in the nick of time. 1990 B. Cornwell Sharpe's Waterloo v. 79 Saxe-Weimar had arrived at the very nick of time. < as lemmas |
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