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Bitter end

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    That part of an anchor cable which is abaft the bitts and thus remains inboard when a ship is riding at anchor.

    "pay out a rope to the bitter end (pay out all of the rope)"

  2. 2
    (nautical) the inboard end of a line or cable especially the end that is wound around a bitt wordnet
  3. 3
    The final six fathoms (11 m) of anchor chain before the point of attachment in the chain locker of modern US naval vessels.
  4. 4
    the final extremity (however unpleasant it may be) wordnet
  5. 5
    The end of a long and difficult process. idiomatic

Etymology

The figurative usage is influenced by bitter (“unpleasant, arduous”).

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