Meaning of on end | Babel Free

Definitions

1. without interruption, without stopping, continuously
   idiomatic
2. upright; erect; endways
   dated

Equivalents

Examples

“These batteries last⟳ for hours on end⟳.”

“The arrangement of some seats facing and some one behind the other, bus fashion, seems a sensible compromise; I am one of those who do not enjoy⟳ staring at my fellow travellers for perhaps hours on end⟳.”

“How silent, on the other hand, lie⟳ all Cotton-trades and such like⟳; not a steeple-chimney yet got on end⟳ from sea to sea!”

“When he was dried he struggled into his shirt. Then, ruddy and shiny, with hair on end⟳, and his flannelette shirt hanging over his pit-trousers, he stood warming the garments he was going to put⟳ on.”

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