The phrase
"crunch time" means a period when there is a lot of pressure or urgency to get something important done or to make a decision quickly.
Full definition
It's best to get this out of the way before you're
in crunch time working through final edits etc..
It's definitely
crunch time for your online shopping orders unless you want to pay for expedited shipping.
They just need to play their best
at crunch time but they really could win the whole thing in the future.
When the rubber meets the road, you want to know that they have your back, especially
during crunch time.
I'd love to stock up slowly ($ $) before
crunch time when the cookbook gets here.
As the budget process moved
into crunch time, the focus was less on mayoral control and more on education reforms the governor was seeking.
If you wait
until crunch time to update your teaching resume, you may simply forget or overlook important teaching traits and strengths.
But the reality is that it's the first thing I put on the back burner as we
enter crunch time in the world of parenthood prep.
We wrote a blog piece explaining why we had to delay the game and offering up pieces of advice on pushing
through crunch time.
This may be the last trailer
before crunch time, but if there's another one, you'd better believe we'll be all over it.
- He's 36 - He will be likely
dominating crunch time possessions for the Heat when they have better players to do so.
Those teams scoring 4 and 5 goals won't do them for very much longer, when
crunch time starts.
Yeah, you're breaking figures down, but it doesn't have to feel
like crunch time.
Hold celebrations
after crunch times or to mark the achievement of a difficult goal or project.
The trouble is, how many of us actually remember to do anything as sensible and structured as that until it's job -
application crunch time?
The rest of the time, I was working full time at other game companies, which often
included crunch time.
I hate to tell you but
crunch time all the time doesn't make your product better, it usually makes it more broken in the long run.
It's
crunch time here, and everything appears to be moving along as expected, which is to say everything is behind schedule.
We have no cover whatsoever for the centre backs and it always shows towards the end of the season
at crunch time.
For most sales reps and sales managers that means it's
crunch time for achieving your sales goals.
He has also learned to take off at least 1 day a week, even
during crunch time, to fend off burnout.
Baz recognises there are a number
of crunch times throughout the day when behaviour in the classroom can become disruptive i.e. before and after break times, carpet time, getting the classes attention, plenary sessions.
Purposefully benching your best players in
crunch time doesn't make sense to me when your best players are your young core who you want to gain experience and comfort in high - pressure situations.
Budget Crunch Time As negotiations enter their final stages, expect more rallies outside City Hall as advocates and legislators look to push for more funding for their causes.
It's
nearing crunch time for Bentley as the British luxury carmaker wrestles with the toughest of choices for its fifth model line.
Over at Drinkbox Studios, another successful Toronto indie company, employees don't
work crunch time.
Silas flips through the diagrams that run on for several pages detailing how the Cavaliers try to score: early offense, secondary offense, post-ups, corner, high posts, Hawk cuts, UCLA cuts, zippers, catch and shoot, loop action and spread, Princeton, dribble hand - off, step ups, horns, middle pick - and - roll, side pick - and - roll, side out of bounds, deep corner out of bounds, baseline out of bounds, ATOs, and
crunch time plays.
Not least among them are the claims of poor working conditions that demanded
crunch time hours with weekend work — a story that caught everyone's attention back in June.
When I made this last night, we ate it warm, but for thanksgiving I will prepare it a couple hours before dinner and serve it as a room temperature salad (if only because next week there will be 10 people vying for very limited stove space and trying to get a hot dish to the table is a fast way to create a lot of anxiety — I think right
around crunch time, I'll step out of the kitchen with a glass of wine and leave the hot dishes to others).
This was a damn masterpiece — an away game with atrocious officiating, and a former walk - on playing at
crunch time against a team with two lottery picks.
And because he's Dwyane Fucking Wade, he will be
getting crunch time minutes and possessions in the playoffs.