Possible Clues:

• Like Christmas Eve shopping
• Just in time, survive with very little
• Not prepared to stay small
• Abusing stimulant drug just before deadline
• Test alumni mysteriously at the eleventh hour
• Nasty team insult just before the final whistle?
• Survive a short time, becoming late
• Final record of meeting just in time
• Sultan needing time to unwind, hurried in the end
• Done at the latest possible moment