end of the line 的定义
- Also, end of the road. The conclusion or final outcome. For example, The editorial pointed out that it was the end of the line for the President; he'd never be reelected, or It was obviously the end of the road for this television series. This idiom alludes to the point where a road or line stops. [c. 1900]
end of the line 近义词
end
更多end of the line例句
- Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
- France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
- Domestically, the prime minister maintains the dubious line that he is the only man who can keep the still-fragile peace.
- In the end, the clarity that comes from moments of horror can help us recommit to deeper principles.
- In the end, I find it never fails to modernize even the most dramatic things.
- I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
- In this position, the line of cavalry formed the chord of the arc described by the river, and occupied by us.
- On to Gaba Tepe just in time to see the opening, the climax and the end of the dreaded Turkish counter attack.
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.