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the tail end of something

the last part of something. I just caught the tail end of the news. Despite being at the tail end of an exhausting tour, she delivered a sparkling performance.

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When Captain Hansen lighted the fuse and hooked the fish hook into the tail end of a native's loin cloth, that native was smitten with so an ardent a desire for the shore that he forgot to shed the loin cloth. South Sea Tales by London, Jack View in context The extraordinary timber projections which I have seen in no other vessel made her square stern resemble the tail end of a miller's waggon. Falk - A Reminiscence by Conrad, Joseph View in context So that is the tail end of the telegram which Godfrey Staunton dispatched within a few hours of his disappearance. The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context More results

References in classic literature

When Captain Hansen lighted the fuse and hooked the fish hook into the tail end of a native's loin cloth, that native was smitten with so an ardent a desire for the shore that he forgot to shed the loin cloth.

South Sea Tales by London, Jack View in context

The extraordinary timber projections which I have seen in no other vessel made her square stern resemble the tail end of a miller's waggon.

Falk - A Reminiscence by Conrad, Joseph View in context

So that is the tail end of the telegram which Godfrey Staunton dispatched within a few hours of his disappearance.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

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