| 词汇 | just under the wire |
| 词源 | just under the wire. This phrase means to barely make the limit or meet the deadline. The expression is from horse racing, where the imaginary “wire” is the finish line and a horse just under the wire is one who beats out another horse by a nose to finish in the money. |
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