living end, the

The utmost in any situation, something quite extraordinary, as in When he threw the stereo out the window-well, that was the living end! or That performance was the living end. [Colloquial; late 1930s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Prudencia	proo-DHEN-thya (Spanish), proo-DHEN-sya (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Ethan	['i:θən]
Engle	['eŋgl]
Partha	-	Hinduism, Bengali, Indian, Assamese
Lalage	-	Literature
Goldberg	['gəuldbɜ:g]