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Complete Definition of "bitter end"

English

Noun
bitter end

  1. nautical that part of an anchor cable which is abaft the bitts and thus remains onboard when a ship is riding at anchor
  1. idiom The end of a long and difficult process.

Related terms
bitts
to the bitter end

Translations
end of process:

Finnish: katkera loppu

See also
last gasp
end of one's rope

Category:English words affected by prescriptivism

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