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loose end
noun
- a part or piece left hanging, unattached, or unused:
Remind me to tack down that loose end on the stairway carpet.
- an unsettled detail, as of a business matter:
The arrangements have been made, except for a few loose ends.
loose end
noun
- a detail that is left unsettled, unexplained, or incomplete
- at a loose endwithout purpose or occupation
Word History and Origins
Origin of loose end1
Idioms and Phrases
- at loose ends, in an uncertain or unsettled situation or position: Also at a loose end.
Ever since leaving the company, he's been at loose ends.
Example Sentences
Critics overall favored the miniseries, but fans “were frustrated by the loose ends they felt they were left with,” as Bishop writes.
The report left a few dangling loose ends, however, that deserve further investigation by Congress and the Pentagon inspector general:
While a few extra characters are left at loose ends and therefore feel extraneous, those aren’t necessary for the communication of the central ideas of class warfare and hypocrisy.
Finding herself at a loose end, Janet sneaked into the recording studio in family's backyard in Encino, California, and started playing a tune she called Fantasy.
Will we have to wait a year for loose ends to be tied up?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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