Meaning & use
11th hour
The very last possible moment before a deadline or before it becomes too late to act.
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The team fixed the critical bug at the 11th hour, just before the product launch.
Investors backed out at the 11th hour, leaving the whole deal in jeopardy.
A note on using this word
Also spelled 'eleventh hour'; the idiom refers to a biblical parable about workers hired late in the day.
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