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the end of the line

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the end of the line also the end of the road
the last part of something He knew he had reached the end of the line when performing started to be more tiring than satisfying. Our friendship reached the end of the road with a nasty fight.
See also: end, line


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At the end of the line Tarzan could still hear the grumbling of the disgruntled priest.
President Lincoln himself fixed the end of the line at Omaha, in Nebraska.
He found a loose end of the clothesline which fastened the logs together, and taking a gold nail from his pocket he bent it nearly double, to form a hook, and tied it to the end of the line.
 
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