lastminutitis

noun

lastminutitis

noun

Etymology From last minute + -itis.

1

Informal The tendency to leave the completion of tasks to the last minute.

Alastair Campbell described lastminutitis at conference, with Tony Blair storming around shouting “Where’s the fucking speech?”2015 October 5, Simon Lancaster, “In need of a perfect conference speech, David Cameron? Here’s the recipe”, in The Guardian:

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