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单词 to the bitter end
释义

to the bitter end

Used to indicate that one will continue doing something until it is finished, no matter what: the workers would fight to the bitter end...
  • Therfore, I hereby resolve to stick the play out to the bitter end, no matter how dire.
  • Last week's decision to take the matter to the bitter end at the Court of Appeal was taken at a hastily-convened meeting by just four members.
  • Things were looking a little different this time last week as Polygon indicated it would fight to the bitter end.
Perhaps associated with a nautical word bitter denoting the last part of a cable inboard of the bitts, perhaps influenced by the biblical phrase ‘her end is bitter as wormwood’ (Prov. 5:4)
See parent entry: bitter
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