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- living end, the
living end, the
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 | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
&Aelig;Sc | | - | Anglo-Saxon |
Wallace | | ['wɔlis] | |
Elihu | | i-LIE-hyoo (English), ee-LIE-hyoo (English) | Biblical, Biblical Hebrew, English (Archaic) |
EleonÓRa | | - | Hungarian |
KivanÇ | | - | Turkish |
Alic | | ['ælik] | |