down-to-the-wire

*down-to-the-wire

Fig. waiting until the very last moment; right up to the deadline. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) It came down-to-the-wire before I turned the proposal in. We went right down-to-the-wire on that one.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jessenia	-	Spanish (Latin American)
Felix	FE-liks (German, Swedish), FAY-liks (Dutch), FEE-liks (English)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, Romanian, Ancient Roman, Biblical, Biblical Lati
Nathan	NAY-thən (English), na-TAWN (French)	English, French, Hebrew, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Vsevolod	FSYE-vah-laht (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian, Medieval Slavic
Vitya	-	Russian
Harrison	HAR-i-sən, HER-i-sən	English