squeaky-bum time BrE informal

For Klein it was squeaky-bum time in more ways than one.

But squeaky-bum time is used exclusively in a championship-chasing context.

My laptop is currently on 82% battery life, so it could be squeaky-bum time towards the end.

Well, now it is squeaky-bum time for that hack.

That was the ultimate example of squeaky-bum time.

If they do and Samit chips in with thirty or so, we'll be into squeaky-bum time for both sides around tea.

This is squeaky-bum time, a time for experienced men, for individuals such as Giggs.

The relegation-zone equivalent of squeaky-bum time?

They don't call this squeaky-bum time for nothiGAH.

'Squeaky-bum time' doesn't even come close.

Squeaky-bum time.

Let squeaky-bum time commence.

If it's squeaky-bum time at the top of the Premier League, it doesn't bear thinking about what it is like at the bottom.

He has given phrases to the dictionary - Fergie Time, the hairdryer treatment, squeaky-bum time.

It's nearing the midpoint of the season and, in the context of the drivers" championship, squeaky-bum time has just arrived.

His description of the final tense moments of a match as "squeaky-bum time" entered the Collins English Dictionary in 2005.

Squeaky-bum time: tense final stages of a league competition, especially from the point of view of the title contenders, and clubs facing promotion and relegation.

It's why, when I walk through that frost-glass door and sit down between Nick and Karren, it's bloody squeaky-bum time in the boardroom, right?

For Wigan, Blackpool, Birmingham, Wolves and Blackburn , 'Squeaky-Bum Time' barely does today any justice at all.

LAST week Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini was asked by a TV reporter if he knew what was meant by squeaky-bum time.

And then for everyone’s amusement he said squeaky-bum time in an Italian accent, which of course made it sound lovely and lyrical compared with Sir Alex Ferguson’s Ahcomfigovan accent.

It leaves the Red Devils heading into what Ferguson describes as "squeaky-bum time" knowing victory over Chelsea at the beginning of April will not in itself be enough to clinch a fourth straight title.

The phrase "squeaky-bum time" coined by Ferguson in reference to the tense final stages of a league competition has been included in the Collins English Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary.