Wiktionary
prep.phr. (context idiomatic English) At the last possible moment; at the last minute.
WordNet
adv. at the last possible moment; "she was saved in the nick of time" [syn: just in time]
Wikipedia
In the Nick of Time is a 1991 Christmas television film directed by George T. Miller.
In the Nick of Time was the second album by Nicolette Larson. It features a duet with Michael McDonald, keyboards from Bill Payne, backing vocals from Bobby LaKind and Rosemary Butler, Ronnie Montrose on guitar and other collaborators. Larson had a minor hit with her McDonald duet, "Let Me Go, Love".
In the Nick of Time is a 1911 Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe. It was described as a "sensational railway drama", although now is considered a lost film. It featured a fight on the footboard of a train.
Usage examples of "in the nick of time".
If he hadn't died in the nick of time, that unhung murderous villain, Maurice Frere, would have come in for it.
Now would the coming of Rohan be in the nick of time,' said Denethor.
I thought a Whitecloak patrol arrived in the nick of time and drove the Trollocs off.
But the Leader arrived in the nick of time, and the radio decided to settle down and enjoy the fun.
With my people, it was always the cavalry that got there in the nick of time, so's they could kill all the savage Indians.
As the jaws clashed together, but only in the nick of time, the bird whizzed off as a gnat into the safe air.
Gilbenstock grabbed his own plate from the table and made it to the kitchen in the nick of time.
I braced myself to leap for the ladder, resolved to kick the appalling Jumbo in the crotch, God willing, for while the dear child had lied splendidly thus far, I knew she was convent-reared on all that hellfire and mortal sin bilge, and wouldn't dare perjure - and I stopped in the nick of time, for she was giving an angry little shrug, looking Papa sulkily in the eye, and swearing by Almightee Godd that she had repelled my clumsy advances with ease and it would take a better man than Flashy to drag her into the long grass, or words to that effect.
A TV set in the window of a store caught George's eye, but he looked away in the nick of time.
He would have fallen down if Tako Kakuta had not rushed to his aid and caught him in the nick of time.
How long he had been a listener I knew not, but he had come in upon us in the nick of time.
But Flamsteed took the case to court and, in the nick of time, won a court order preventing distribution of the stolen work.