all'ultimo minuto

Italian

Etymology

Literally, at the last minute.

Prepositional phrase

all'ultimo minuto

  1. (idiomatic) at the last minute
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 27, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
      A Cape Canaveral ci attendeva una delusione: la NASA aveva annullato all'ultimo minuto il lancio dello shuttle a causa di problemi a un motore ausiliario.
      In Cape Canaveral, we were disappointed to learn that NASA had been forced to scrub the space shuttle launch at the last minute due to problems in an auxiliary power unit...
      (literally, “At Cape Canaveral a disappointment was waiting for us: NASA had cancelled the shuttle launch at the last minute due to problems to an auxilary motor.”)
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