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beginning of the end

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beginning of the end
Fig. the start of the termination of something or of someone's death. When he stopped coughing and grew still, I knew it was the beginning of the end. The enormous debt we ran up marked the beginning of the end as far as our standard of living was concerned.
See also: beginning, end


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One Monday morning about a month ago, she had a kind of faint spell; it wasn't bad, but the doctor is afraid it was a shock, and if so, it's the beginning of the end.
It is possible that this is the beginning of the end, that his wonderful fortune will desert him, that his star has gone down.
"This must be the beginning of the end," he said, inter- rupting me.
 
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