down to the wire
C1CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Describing a deal that is being decided right up until the very last moment.
It went down to the wire, but they signed before quarter-end.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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