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]
See also: living

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
&Aelig;Sc-Anglo-Saxon
Wallace['wɔlis]
Elihui-LIE-hyoo (English), ee-LIE-hyoo (English)Biblical, Biblical Hebrew, English (Archaic)
EleonÓRa-Hungarian
KivanÇ-Turkish
Alic['ælik]