on end

Idioms  

1. 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

One where the music transforms clubs, restaurants and parks across the city for nights on end?

From Los Angeles Times

Many use soup kitchens to get free hot meals because there are also power cuts here for hours on end.

From BBC

They had been working almost nonstop for weeks on end; they had needed a break.

From Literature

Eventually, it fed his ego and math delusions enough that he would spend days on end writing elaborate codes.

From Slate

The hair on Coal’s arms stood on end.

From Literature

Related Words

• erect
• perpendicular
• vertical