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View synonyms for on end

on end



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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.
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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.

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

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

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

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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