In English "last minute" is a pretty common phrase, but I am having a hard
time finding a parallel in Japanese. I want to say things like

  * Any last minute questions?
  * I am doing some last minute studying
  * Person A: You didn't tell us you were going to Paris! Person B: it was kind of last minute
  * Why do you always do things so last minute?

I think that `ぎりぎり` works for the last phrase, but I don't think it would work
for the first three. `ギリギリの質問がありますか` sounds wrong to me.

For the first phrase, you could say something like `試験を受ける前、質問がありますか` but I
feel like that loses the sense of urgency and "last chance"-ness that `last
minute` gives.

Thanks in advance
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Last Minute + Studying/Questions etc
One term I've heard to good effect is 土壇場【どたんば】. By kanji, this literally
means [土]{ど} ("dirt, earth, earthen") + [壇]{たん} (usually read だん on its own;
"platform, mound, raised area") + [場]{ば} ("place, location"), and as a
compound, this means "the location of an earthen mound used for beheadings",
which is rather gruesome. As an idiom, to do something 土壇場で has an extended
meaning of doing something "right at the point of getting beheaded" → that is,
to do something "at the [eleventh
hour](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eleventh_hour)", "at the last minute".

See also the J→E entries at
[Weblio](https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/%E5%9C%9F%E5%A3%87%E5%A0%B4) and
[Eijiro](https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%E5%9C%9F%E5%A3%87%E5%A0%B4).
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