滑すべり込こみ

noun

sliding; slide

Baseball term for a slide into a base. Also used in other sports for a sliding motion.

• 彼かれは二に塁るいへの滑すべり込こみがうまい。

  He is good at sliding into second base.

• 滑すべり込こみの練れん習しゅうを毎まい日にちしている。

  I practice sliding every day.

noun

just in time; at the last moment; barely making it

Figurative use derived from the baseball slide: arriving, submitting, or finishing something just before a deadline or cutoff. Often used as 滑り込みで or 滑り込みセーフ.

• 締しめ切きりに滑すべり込こみで間まに合あった。

  I made it just in time for the deadline.

• 最さい終しゅう電でん車しゃに滑すべり込こみで乗のれた。

  I barely caught the last train.