on end
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- (idiomatic) without interruption, without stopping, continuously
- These batteries last for hours on end.
- upright; erect; endways
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century
- How silent, on the other hand, lie all Cotton-trades and such like; not a steeple-chimney yet got on end from sea to sea!
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 8
- When he was dried he struggled into his shirt. Then, ruddy and shiny, with hair on end, and his flannelette shirt hanging over his pit-trousers, he stood warming the garments he was going to put on.
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century
- Russian: непреры́вно
- German: hochkant
- Russian: стоймя́
- Spanish: de canto
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