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"text": "‘No, — I hadn’t time. I was due at the station, — I was cutting it pretty fine as it was.’",
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"To achieve something at the last possible moment, or with no margin for error."
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"(idiomatic, UK) To achieve something at the last possible moment, or with no margin for error."
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"To be stingy."
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"(idiomatic, UK) To be stingy."
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, it, fine."
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"(idiomatic, UK) To achieve something at the last possible moment, or with no margin for error."
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"(idiomatic, UK) To be stingy."
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