loose ends

1. Unfinished details, incomplete business. For example, We've not quite finished the project; there are still some loose ends. This expression alludes to the ends of a rope or cable that should be fastened. [Mid-1800s] Also see at loose ends.

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The screwdrivers are our apps, tightening such loose ends of daily life as banking, calendars, reminders.

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“There’s just too many loose ends and too many things that could go awry,” said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond School of Law.

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“He didn’t like circumstantial evidence. He felt there were too many loose ends.”

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“The River Is Waiting” is more than 400 pages long, yet the ending feels like an afterthought, wrapping up loose ends without satisfying the reader.

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The obvious manipulations, the panoply of loose ends and the cheaply provocative happenings will keep me from a return visit to this season.

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