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on end
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.Example Sentences
On Friday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US was not "going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months on end", as it had "other priorities to focus on".
He was speaking after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US was not "going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months on end", as it had "other priorities to focus on".
"She sat me down, and said: 'Joanne, you need to do something', and she sat with me for hours on end."
I considered how, for days on end, I’d cried in the shower, doubled over in heartache.
Gill and Bruce also leased their RV through homeowner’s insurance because they did not want to live in a hotel for months on end.
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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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