eleventh-hour decision

eleventh-hour decision
eleventh-hour decision
Fig. a decision made very late in a process, or at the last possible moment. •

Eleventhhour decisions are seldom satisfactory.

The president's eleventh-hour decision was made in a great hurry, but it turned out to be correct.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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