Down to the wire

[Tdol]

Check your answer here.

[JACOOL]

good job Jacool

[RonBee]

Something similar is neck and neck. (See the binomials thread.)

[DeadSea]

some times it is difficult to understand the meaning of an idiom, of course in a foreign language... however, most idioms are same in diffirent languages. Like this, same to a turkish idiom...

[Daruma]

▪ The election went/came (right) down to the wire. [=the election was not decided until the very end]

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go, come, etc. (right) down to the wire (informal) if you say that a situation goes down to the wire, you mean that the result will not be decided or known until the very end

[Huda-M]

I got the right one! Some iddioms you can tell by their words - like it was down to the wire, like at the very end!

[Mad-ox]

I got the wrong one. I tried to analyze the words "down to the wire" and I thought that the race is "arranged/decided through the wire", through telephone before the race is over.

[RonBee]

down to the wire:
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World Wide Words: Down to the wire

[Mad-ox]

down to the wire:
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World Wide Words: Down to the wire

interesting and useful