on end

Idioms and Phrases

Continuously, without interruption, as in It's been raining for days on end . This term, which might just as well be put “seemingly without end,” dates from about 1300.

Example Sentences

It is now a tail-on-end chase, all three horses going at the greatest speed to which their riders can press them.

From Project Gutenberg

Do not look at me with that hair-standing-on end expression!

From Project Gutenberg

It was the straight tail-on-end chase that took both beyond reach of his vision.

From Project Gutenberg

Wooden legs you're stood-on-end and pitches yourself over, just as like as not.

From Project Gutenberg