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Mia Le
2021-02-07 04:02
The eleventh hour British American informal
At the very last monent before it's too late
Steven always waits until the eleventh hour to do his homework.
Sam, my uncle, got saved at the eleventh hour by our neighbors when they found him fainted on the ground yesterday.
Sarah couldn't pass her probation because she often made basic mistakes repeatedly and submitted her assigned tasks at the eleventh hour.
'The eleventh hour' is often used in the sentence as the 'adverb of time' and goes after 'at', 'til', 'until', etc.
Based on the research of Bryan Dugan on Mentalfloss, at first people thought that it might originate from the Bible, specifically Matthew 20:9: “And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour they received every man a denarius.” The passage is a reference to the fact that the workers who took over at the eleventh hour of a 12-hour workday received just as much pay at those who had already been working all day.
However, the phrase really started to take off in the 19th century, but was used earlier than that, and some scholars have even narrowed a specific time for the eleventh hour down to the time between 5 and 6 p.m., because the typical workday was from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.—or sunrise to sunset. Whether or not the Bible housed the phrase’s original meaning, it is now an allusion to something that happens at the last possible moment.
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Used to indicate that helping each other or working together toward the same goal will have advantages for everyone who is involved
The relationship between fashion and film is that one hand washes the other and both wash the face.
