cut it a bit fine

Maybe they'd left early: the way Jimmy drove, eleven would have been cutting it a bit fine.

"Seems to me we're cutting it a bit fine."

'I'm meeting him at the airport, cutting it a bit fine.

You just cut it a bit fine, that's all.'

Yesterday I cut it a bit fine."

"I'm cutting it a bit fine," he said.

'Cutting it a bit fine with the helicopter, aren't they?'

'We're cutting it a bit fine for me to organise all that, sir.'

"Cutting it a bit fine, aren't you?"

'Good God, that's cutting it a bit fine,' said Alfred Rodgers.