evil hour

While doctors may help people postpone the evil hour, the real battle is a psychological one.

No sooner had I caught sight of our black hull, than savory odors of burnt fat eddied around me; grief took hold of me, and 1 cried aloud: ‘O Father Zeus and gods in bliss forever, you made me sleep away this day of mischief! O cruel drowsing, in the evil hour! Here they sat, and a great work they contrived.’

But moving day, alas, draws on apace, as doth the evil hour when I'll have to take the shears to my sprawling collection in earnest.

Ayr, also due to race tomorrow, have managed to postpone the evil hour of their inspection until 7.30am on raceday.

In an evil hour he yielded to her prayer.