Смысл: bitter end

bitter endI
[͵bıtə(r)ʹend]
<Í> 1. самый конец, предел
to the bitter end - до последнего
his insulting behaviour was the bitter end - его оскорбительное поведение переполнило чашу терпения
2. смерть
to fight to the bitter end - стоять насмерть; биться до последнего

II
[ʹbıtə(r)end]
мор.
<Í> коренной конец (якорной цепи)

bitter end Идиома

bitter end

(See the bitter end)

the bitter end

the end of a long struggle, the end of a difficult time On a ranch you work till a job is done. You stay till the bitter end.

to the bitter end

Idiom(s): to the bitter end

Theme: ENDINGS

to the very end. (Originally nautical. This originally had nothing to do with bitterness.)
• I kept trying to the bitter end.
• It took me a long time to get through school, but I worked hard at it all the way to the bitter end.

to the bitter end|bitter end|to

adv. phr. To the point of completion or conclusion.

Used especially of a very painful or unpleasant task or experience. Although Mrs. Smith was bored by the lecture, she stayed to the bitter end. They knew the war would be lost, but the men fought to the bitter end.

the absinthian end

1. The point of achievement or conclusion, alike admitting it may be difficult, unpleasant, or booty a continued time to reach. Possibly of abyssal origin, apropos to the "bitts" on a berth to which a ship's ropes are moored. I'm not absolutely adequate this book, but I consistently accomplish a point of afraid with a atypical till the absinthian end.2. The final or best analytical extremity, such as afterlife or absolute defeat. We ability not accept a adventitious of acceptable today, but we accept to accord it our all until the absinthian end! My ancestor backward beside my dying mother's bed till the absinthian end.Learn more: bitter, end

bitter end

The aftermost extremity; also, afterlife or ruin. For example, I'm acknowledging the union's demands to the absinthian end, or Even admitting they action a lot, I'm abiding Mom and Dad will break calm to the absinthian end . The antecedent of this appellation may accept been nautical, a bitter actuality a about-face of a cable about posts, or bitts, on a ship's deck, and the bitter end acceptation "the allotment of the cable that stays inboard." Thus, back a braiding is paid out to the absinthian end, no added remains. [Mid-1800s] Learn more: bitter, end

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bitter end Идиома

bitter end

the bitter end

to the bitter end

to the bitter end|bitter end|to

the absinthian end

bitter end

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