at the end of the day

[at thee end uhv thuh dey]

idiom

1. after everything is considered or accounted for; ultimately.

   At the end of the day, we went for simpler printers that just do their job as soon as you click “print” on your device.

   “Yes, cost and convenience matter, but at the end of the day, it’s about the welfare of our children,” she said.

Word History and Origins

Origin of at the end of the day¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

These lawyers answer to a whole array of people up to and including Pam Bondi, but at the end of the day, if you’re lying in court, you face the consequences.

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“At the end of the day, we are suffering,”

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“At the end of the day, most people book their airline tickets based on two primary factors,” Kheel said.

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“Well, they suck and we’ll win, and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day, and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe. And they’re so weak, we’ll fix it.”

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Maybe at the end of the day, someone comes away from my show and is like, Yeah, I listened to Ross Douthat’s show, and it turns out that conservatives are just as bad as I thought or The far left is just as dangerous as I always suspected that they are or Silicon Valley is in fact going to destroy our humanity.

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