at the appointed time

at the appointed time

At a specific, designated time. You need to be in court at the appointed time. I'll never get to my interview at the appointed time with all this traffic!
See also: appoint, time
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

at the appointed time

at the expected or assigned time. The cab pulled up in the driveway at the appointed time. We all met at the hotel at the appointed time.
See also: appoint, time
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • at the dot
  • dot
  • any time means no time
  • any day
  • any old time
  • (it's) time to move along
  • against time
  • against the clock
  • any time
  • (it's) time to run
References in classic literature
At the appointed time, to the moment, I rang the bell at the office door.
There were local tales of his having exerted his powers of prognosis, or perhaps you would say diagnosis; and it was said that in every instance the person whose friends he had warned had died suddenly at the appointed time, and from no assignable cause.
I attended it at the appointed time, the legal formalities requiring my presence in the room, but as it turned out, not calling on me to repeat my evidence.
At the appointed time he approached, leading the bride, a comely copper-colored dame attired in her Indian finery.
But be sure that His hand, when it rises, always falls at the appointed time. It may be that your name is being called even at this very moment at the Great Assize.
At the appointed time the parties all assembled, when the messenger returning brought word, that Jenny was not to be found; for that she had left her habitation a few days before, in company with a recruiting officer.
Lord de Winter arrived at the appointed time; but Athos, being warned of his coming, went into the other chamber.
All the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in chief's and with the exception of Prince Bagration, who declined to come, were all there at the appointed time.
He came round at the appointed time, took out his jack-knife, and sat down to his meal.
It was the American steamer, leaving for Yokohama at the appointed time.
All passages must be paid for when taken, in order that the most perfect arrangements be made for starting at the appointed time.
Mosey compared her written directions with the medicine-bottles on the table, and set one apart to be used at the appointed time. "Nothing, so far, to alarm us," she whispered.
At the appointed time, we stood at the door - the door of that house where I had been, a few days since, so happy: where my youthful confidence and warmth of heart had been yielded up so freely: which was closed against me henceforth: which was now a waste, a ruin.
'Fourth, where she has gone now; by the grace of God Almighty, we will be there at the appointed time,' he said.
'However, when Aseefa Bhutto Zardari arrived at the NAB detention centre at the appointed time she was first made to shuttle from door to door before finally being told that she cannot meet her father.