Meaning:
the time when something is planned to begin (military)
Examples:
- Instead, people keep talking here as if 'zero hour' were just beginning.
- This is zero hour for me.
- Nicaragua is once again reaching zero hour.
- At a minute past zero hour the country's entire railway system was paralyzed.
- We'd like you to join our program, Become part of zero hour.
- An hour till zero hour.
- For Baumeister - as for many artists - the zero hour of was a longed-for new beginning.
- If it comes down to zero hour, and he still hasn't given us electricity, We'II do the deed.
- The subsequent test engines will not be subjected to the running-in procedure, but their zero hour emissions will be modified by the evolution coefficient.
- I come home to find a man in the same boat with me... and my wife says, "What does it matter?" But Mr. Tura, this is zero hour.