business end of something

business end (of something)

n. the dangerous end of something; the part of something that does something as opposed to the part one holds on to. Harry burned himself on the business end of a soldering iron.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Balbinus	-	Ancient Roman
ÅGot	-	Norwegian
Slava	-	Russian, Slovene, Croatian
Sigfrid (1)	SEEG-freed	Swedish
Alannah	ə-LAN-ə (English)	English (Modern), Irish
Maja (2)	MIE-ah (German, Polish)	Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovene, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Czech, Slovak