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fight to the bitter end Идиома

a send-up

a mockery or satire, a takeoff on The speaker did a send-up of the the way Canadians talk.

all's well that ends well

a happy ending is the most important thing, the end justifies... Although we argued and fought, we are happy with the result. All's well that ends well!

around the bend

crazy or insane, off your rocker If I had to listen to that noise all the time, I'd go around the bend.

at loose ends

disorganized, unable to concentrate I was at loose ends when the kids were fighting. I couldn't think.

at my wits' end

very tired and nervous, at the end of my rope After a wedding and a funeral she was at her wits' end.

at the end of my rope/ at the end of my tether

losing control of myself, losing patience (see lose patience) Babysitting five kids, I was at the end of my rope.

at the end of one

at the limit of one

attend to someone

take care or deal with someone The doctor attended to the other patient before he got to my mother.

be-all, end-all

trying to be too great, world beater The new manager thinks he's the greatest - the be-all, end-all.

bend over backwards

do anything to help, try to please, go the extra mile They'll bend over backwards to find a room for you. They give excellent service.

fight to the absinthian end

To abide to attempt or endeavor until 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 action to the absinthian end! My poor mother fought to the absinthian end, but the blight ultimately baffled her.Learn more: bitter, end, fight, to

bitter end, (fight) to the

The aftermost extremity, the cessation of a boxy action or added difficult situation. The appellation comes from seamanship, area “the absinthian end” is that allotment of the alternation or ballast cable that is anchored central the barge and is hardly used. It is so declared in Captain Smith’s Seaman’s Grammar of 1627: “A absinthian is but the turne of a Cable about the bitts, and veare it out by little and little. And the Bitter’s end is that allotment of the Cable doth break aural board.” It was sometimes spelled better; Daniel Defoe, in Robinson Crusoe (1719), declared a abhorrent storm, saying, “We rode with two anchors ahead, and the cables veered out to the bigger end.” A abundant beforehand adaptation is begin in Chaucer’s The Squire’s Tale: “They demen acquiescently to the badder ende” (translated by the Reverend Walter W. Skeat as “worse end”).Learn more: bitter, to

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believe one bells and whistles belly up belly up to the bar bellyache below the belt below the poverty line belt you bend over backwards bend over backwards to do something bend the rules bend your ear bend your elbow benefit of the doubt bent out of shape beside myself beside one fight fires fight for fight for (one's) life fight for (someone or something) fight for life fight hammer and tongs fight in armour fight it out fight like a lion fight like cat and dog fight like hell fight like Kilkenny cats fight off fight on fight or flight fight out fight over fight over (someone or something) fight shy of fight shy of (someone or something) fight shy of something/of doing something fight the good fight fight through fight till the bitter end fight to death fight to the bitter end fight to the death fight tooth and claw fight tooth and nail fight until the bitter end fight way out fight with fight with (someone or an animal) over (someone or something) fight with (someone or something) fight with (someone or something) about (someone or something) fight your corner fight your own battles fightin fighting chance fighting chance, a fighting fit fighting mad fighting spirit fighting talk fighting words FIGJAM figment figment of (one's)/the imagination figment of one's imagination figment of the imagination, a FIGMO