The idea is the opposite, Pat! I haven't been able to keep on time to do sth. It's like you are traveling around Brazil, and you need to be in Curitiba on Dec. 28 to get on an airplane back to Germany at 2.00 pm. You arrive in Curitiba at 1.30 pm, Dec. 28. That's too close to the time of your flight back to Germany. In Portuguese, we say that "ficou muito em cima da hora para fazer alguma coisa".