: the latest possible time before it is too late. still making changes at the eleventh hour.
synonyms for eleventh hour
On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to eleventh hour, such as: high time, just in time, last minute, nick of time, the last moment, and zero hour.
The phrase eleventh hour has a Biblical origin; it comes from a parable in Matthew in which a few last-minute workers, hired long after the others, are paid the same wage. Despite being brought on the job after eleven hours of hard vineyard work, they weren't too late.
Woodrow Wilson's original message to the nation.
King James Bible, Matthew 20:6 & 20:9: And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? [...] And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
Many say that this idiom originated from the Bible. A very unlikely source, the first mention of the eleventh hour can be found in the book of Matthew, Chapter 20, verse 9.
The 11th hour is the time when everything suggests that you give up. And the miracle comes in like your team scoring in the last minute of the stoppage time before the final whistle. Often times December becomes the 11th hour and sadly many of God's children give up on their dreams, targets, and/or plans for the year.
To put it in context, the workers who were hired at the eleventh hour worked for only one hour but still received a full day's wages. That is God's grace at work! The eleventh hour miracle is a miracle you get when it looks like time is running out on you.
The phrase "at the eleventh hour" is a prepositional phrase. This phrase begins with a preposition (at) followed by an adjective (eleventh) and noun (hour).
Procrastinator comes from the Latin verb procrastinare, which means deferred until tomorrow.
Psychology of procrastination: Why people put off important tasks until the last minute.
Procrastination is when you have time to do something, but you deliberately wait until the last minute to do it.
Working as a hospice volunteer for seven years, I've witnessed a variety of outcomes during a patient's final moments, commonly referred to as the “eleventh hour.” During this time, people process their final defining moment: dying.
Johnson's book, "The Eleventh Hour Can't Last Forever," tells the story of the destructive obsession of her father, Dean Krotter, with buying and hoarding gold and silver coins and her family's problems as they dealt with living in a small Nebraska town that she describes as "about as far as one could get from ...
Something done at the 25th hour means it happens after time has run out, indicating disarray, desperation, or urgency. 25th hour can also characterize something occurring at the last minute.
: a person or thing that someone loves very much. His daughter is the apple of his eye.
“It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three, because the sun's light failed,” according to Luke 23:44. The New American Bible even translates this “because of an eclipse of the sun.”
“After he had said this, he went on to tell them, 'Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up. ' His disciples replied, 'Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better. ' Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.
A garrulous person just won't stop talking (and talking, and talking, and talking...). Garrulous comes from the Latin word garrire for "chattering or prattling." If someone is garrulous, he doesn't just like to talk; he indulges in talking for talking's sake — whether or not there's a real conversation going on.
careless, distracted, inattentive, sloppy, unmindful, absent, absent-minded, abstracted, airheaded, amnesic, bemused, dreamy, heedless, lax, mooning, moony, neglectful, negligent, nirvanic, oblivious.
Selfish is usually meant to be an insult; someone selfish goes beyond just taking care of themselves, and actively takes from others. The opposite of selfish is self-sacrificing, which means, "giving everything to others and sacrificing your own needs." Definitions of selfish. adjective.
the time of one's death. Collins English Dictionary.