rope's end
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Four desperate people at rope's end find the strength to live beyond despair and accept their tortuous lot.
From Time Magazine Archive
You were dragged into it at a rope's end .
From Time Magazine Archive
At the rope's end is a metal hook.
From Time Magazine Archive
If Franklin Roosevelt thought the New Deal had reached its fiscal rope's end, he did not show it.
From Time Magazine Archive
I select a rock, slightly bigger than my hand, and tie it to the rope’s end.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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