Just in time; at the last possible moment. This expression occurs in the biblical parable of the laborers (Matthew 20:1–16),
in which those workers hired at the eleventh hour of a twelve-hour day received as much pay as those who began work in the first hour. Eric Par- tridge claimed that the current cliché does not allude to this story but offered no alternative source. The American poet Forceythe Willson
(1837–67) wrote, “And I heard a Bugle sounding, as from some celestial Tower; and the same mysterious voice said: ‘It is the Eleventh Hour!’” (“The Old Sergeant”). The armistice ending World War I came into force at 11 A.M. on November 11, 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
Three individuals have been apprehended in the case of the lithium pools,
according to the Prosecutor's Office.
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So far, three individuals have been apprehended in the investigation into
the industrial evaporation pools of Bolivian Lithium Deposits (YLB),
reported ...
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