Timeline for Is this usage correct - quite literally at the eleventh hour?
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| Jan 17, 2018 at 18:50 | comment | added | EightyEighty | @EdwinAshworth Ha! Fair enough. It certainly confused me. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 22:19 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | This is not the emphasiser role of 'literally'. It's the 'using the language with its precise primary meaning' sense. The snag is that the one-to-one correspondence is here between 'endleofan ' and 'at the eleventh hour', not between 'at the eleventh hour' and the perilous time referred to. And this is confusing. | |
| Jan 15, 2018 at 19:53 | history | answered | EightyEighty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |