Meaning of JUST IN TIME - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So in English when we say something happens
just in time it means that it happens about
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one second before it would have been a bit
too late.
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A good example of this would be the other
day I was walking and I was still a little
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ways from my house and the clouds were starting
to get kind of dark, and it looked like it
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might rain.
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So I started to walk a little bit faster and
when I got to the door of my house the rain
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started to come down.
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So you could say that I got to my house just
in time.
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So I got to my house just before the rain
started to come down.
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You can use this phrase as well, maybe you
had to go to a meeting and maybe the meeting
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started at 3:00 and you were in a bit of a
rush and you were running a little bit late,
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but you got to the meeting at 2:59, with one
second to spare.
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You got to the meeting just in time.
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