end of the line

1. Also, end of the road. The conclusion or final outcome. For example, The editorial pointed out that it was the end of the line for the President; he'd never be reelected, or It was obviously the end of the road for this television series. This idiom alludes to the point where a road or line stops. [c. 1900]

Example Sentences

If this is the end of the line for Kershaw, however, he is going out on his own terms.

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Path is what “Sirât” means in Arabic, often with a religious connotation, and his new movie takes a unique journey, traversing from the loose-limbed dancing of its early scenes to a train’s tracks stretching fixedly to the end of the line.

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Bonta previously told The Times the Probation Department was headed toward the “end of the line.”

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When asked who she was talking to on the other end of the line she said it was “the head of customs.”

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Multiple companies now offer AI agents that will make phone calls for you — in your voice or another voice — and have a conversation with the person at the other end of the line based on your instructions.

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