ends of the earth, (from) the

the ends of the Earth

The most remote or inaccessible places on Earth; anywhere one needs to go to accomplish something. Baby, my love for you is so strong that I would go to the ends of the Earth to be with you! That no-good cheat robbed me of my inheritance, and I'll follow him to the ends of the Earth to get it back.

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the ends of the earth

the most distant parts of the world.

See also: earth, end, of

ends of the earth, (from) the

The remotest parts of the globe. The phrase first appeared in the Bible: “All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God” (Psalms 98:3). This turn of phrase is based on the idea of a flat earth, which actually has “ends.” Nevertheless, it survived the general acknowledgment that the globe is spherical and was a cliché by the late nineteenth century.

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