rope's end
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Four desperate people at rope's end find the strength to live beyond despair and accept their tortuous lot.
From Time Magazine Archive
If Franklin Roosevelt thought the New Deal had reached its fiscal rope's end, he did not show it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jane Fonda is at rope's end in her latest movie, Comes a Horseman Wild and Free, now filming in Colorado.
From Time Magazine Archive
You were dragged into it at a rope's end .
From Time Magazine Archive
Looping the rope’s end around the old water-butt that had been the ferret’s drum, she sprang inside, calling up to the parapet, “Haul away, Constance.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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