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down to the wire
Idioms and Phrases
To the last minute; to the very end. For example, We're just about down to the wire with this project . This term comes from horseracing, where it was long the practice to stretch a wire across and above the track at the finish line. It was extended to figurative use about 1900.Example Sentences
Aliya told the BBC it was something she first did for herself: "After I was finished with my costume I would rip it apart, literally down to the wire, and figure out how to make this into something else to wear outside of carnival."
YouTube TV subscribers braced for the loss of popular programming as negotiations for a new distribution contract went down to the wire.
Paramount began warning CBS, BET and Comedy Central viewers that a blackout was likely as negotiations went down to the wire with executives who run YouTube TV.
"This new format, people are split. It is brilliant, isn't it? We have gone down to the wire," said former Celtic and Blackburn forward Chris Sutton on BBC Radio 5 Live.
The NFC South battle went down to the wire as the Buccaneers produced a fourth-quarter comeback against the New Orleans Saints to take the division ahead of the Atlanta Falcons.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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