the end of the road
noun phrase
informal
: the end (as of a condition or situation)
A loss in the primary elections will mean the end of the road for his campaign.
They reached the end of the road as a couple a long time ago.
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Get ready for school, tell her parents goodbye, lock the door and head for the bus stop with her neighbors at the end of the road, roughly 50 feet from her front door, to head to Park Hill South High School.
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Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2025
But this moment is not the end of the road for you.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
Warehouse: Songs and Stories was the end of the road, though, with Hüsker Dü disbanding less than a year after its release.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 4 Feb. 2025
Red and rusty, the reliable car has now come to the end of the road, Bragg added.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2025
But this moment is not the end of the road for you.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
Warehouse: Songs and Stories was the end of the road, though, with Hüsker Dü disbanding less than a year after its release.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 4 Feb. 2025
Red and rusty, the reliable car has now come to the end of the road, Bragg added.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the end of the road
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“The end of the road.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20end%20of%20the%20road. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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