Eleventh-hour decision In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "eleventh-hour decision", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Julia Huong calendar 2021-12-09 10:12

Meaning of Eleventh-hour decision

Eleventh-hour decision noun phrase

A decision made at the last possible moment

The government has taken an eleventh-hour decision to withdraw all troops.

They reached an eleventh-hour decision after weeks of controversy about the sitting of the new airport.

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If one stands pat on something, he or she sticks firmly to it.

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Make a decision. 

play (one's) hunch

Make a decision based on one's feeling or intuition

send the helve after the hatchet

To decide too hastily; to throw something away after encountering a setback

see/think fit (to do something)

To think it is suitable to do something.
 

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Time is running out.

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Time's a-wastin' and you're still enjoying breakfast?

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