AT THE LAST

Definition: AT THE LAST

AT THE LAST

1. [Prob. fr. AS. on l[=a]ste behind, following behind, fr. l[=a]st race, track, footstep. See Last mold of the foot.] At the end; in the conclusion. [Obs.] ``Gad, a troop shall overcome him; but he shall overcome at the last.'' --Gen. xlix. 19.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Danger

Tottering; unstable, unsteady; shaky, top-heavy, tumbledown, ramshackle, crumbling, waterlogged; helpless, guideless; in a bad way; reduced to the last extremity, at the last extremity; trembling in the balance; nodding to its fall; (destruction). threatening; ominous, illomened; alarming; (fear); explosive.

Death

Dying. Verb: moribund, morient; hippocratic; in articulo, in extremis; in the jaws of death, in the agony of death; going off; aux abois; one one's last legs, on one's death bed; at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp; near one's end, given over, booked; with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave.

End

Adverb: finally; Adjective: in fine; at the last; once for all.

Crosswords: AT THE LAST

All I can say is don't fall at the last fence. (Brazil; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Charles McKeown)

But you are. For at the last moment you made a stand against evil! (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

Your spell worked at the last minute, Will. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983)

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Theater & Movies

• AUTHORIZED INTERNATIONAL EDITION OF THE SOYUZMULTFILM LIBRARY (in Russian) Vol 22: Adventures of Red Ties, At the last desk # 1, Academic Ivanov, Vintik and Shpuntik--- Funny Masters (reference)

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Bob was the duty driver that night Bob Pryce at the Last Chance Bar in Umiat. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Better than perfect was the last rating this Resettlement Administration camp kitchen in central Oregon received at the last inspection. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

At the last term on the affidavits then read and filed with the clerk, a rule was granted in this case, requiring the Secretary of State [note: i.e., James Madison] to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, directing him to deliver to William Marbury his commission as a justice of the peace for the county of Washington, in the district of Columbia. (reference)

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He approached timidly and knelt at the last bench in the body, thankful for the peace and silence and fragrant shadow of the church.

The young man ground at the last valve.

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Health

Various other mutations-over 400 at the last count-seem to be responsible for the remaining CF cases. (references)

At the last CDC, data on cochlear implantation suggested that children or adults with postlingual onset of deafness had better auditory performance than children or adults with prelingual or perilingual onset. (references)

Economic History

Moldova

Cash privatization has had less success: the completed international tenders of the Moldovan telecommunications company Moldtelecom in 1998, and the tobacco concern Tutun in 1996, were canceled at the last minute. (references)

Political Rights

Venezuela

Faced with the prospect of a chaotic and contested election, the CNE decided at the last minute to serve as a friend of the court in a pending suit by two NGO's before the Supreme Court seeking delay of the election. (references)

Eritrea

In an effort to encourage broader participation by women in politics, the PFDJ named 3 women to the party's 19-member Executive Council and 11 women to the 75-member Central Council at the last party congress that was held in 1994. Women participated in the Constitutional Commission (occupying almost half of the positions on the 50-person committee) and hold several senior government positions, including the positions of Minister of Justice and Minister of Labor. (references)

Trade

Venezuela

The Importers Registry was eliminated at the last quarter of 2000 (it was established in 10-28-99). All importers of agricultural commodities and by-products no longer must be registered at the Ministry of Production and Commerce (MPC), and do not need to demonstrate their importing history (volume, value, country of origin, final sales and final destinations, among other items). (references)

Travel

Czech Rep

It is best to start arranging meetings several weeks before you visit, as Czechs are reluctant to arrange impromptu meetings at the last minute. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "AT THE LAST": At the last gasp ♦ at the last minute ♦ at the last moment ♦ at the last pass. Additional references.

Finnish

viime tingassa (at the last moment), viime hetkessä (at the last minute, only just in time). (various references)

German

vorläufig (at the last moment, for the present, for the time being, interim, preliminarily, preliminary, provisional, provisionally, temporarily, temporary, tentative, tentatively), im letzten moment (at the last moment), im letzten augenblick (at the last moment, in the nick of time). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ぎゅう詰め (at the last moment, being startled, crumpled, dazzle, disheveled, feel gloomy, feeling depressed, glare, glitter, hard, jammed, just barely, mimesis, mimicry, packed like sardines, snoringly, tight), ドイツ連邦共�'�国 (a do-it-yourself store, cancel at the last minute, Debussy, dock, docking, doctor, doctor course, doctrine, document, documental, documentary, documentary drama, documentation, dodecaphony, dodge ball, doeskin, dog racing, dogfight, doggie bag, dogma, dogmatic, dogmatism, dogmatist, doily, do-it-yourself, dominant, domino, donor, doom, doo-wop, dot, dot map, dot matrix, dot printer, dwell, dwelling, Federal Republic of Germany, referee's stop, thud, to be noisy, to make noise, yakuza sword). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎりぎり (at the last moment, just barely), ドチャキャン (cancel at the last minute). (various references)

Pig Latin

atay ethay astlay

Swedish

i sista stund (at the last moment), i sista minuten (at the last minute), i sista hand (at the last pass, ultimately). (various references)

Turkish

son anda (at the eleventh hour, at the last moment, in the nick of time). (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: altheas, hastate, stealth, tattles.

-3 letters: alates, althea, attest, halest, haslet, latest, lathes, lattes, shelta, shtetl, statal, tattle, thetas.

-4 letters: alate, atlas, haets, hales, halts, haste, hates, heals, heats, lathe, laths, latte, leash, least, selah, setal, shale, shalt, sheal, slate, stale, state, steal, stela, taels, talas, tales, taste, tates, teals, teats, tesla, testa, teths.

-5 letters: aahs.

+4 letters: throatlatches.

+5 letters: stadtholderate, terephthalates.