on end

Idioms and Phrases

Continuously, without interruption, as in It's been raining for days on end . This term, which might just as well be put “seemingly without end,” dates from about 1300.

Example Sentences

“Unfortunately the likelihood of someone surviving that kind of inclement weather for days on end is slim.”

From Los Angeles Times

"It is not only that they haven't done the job. It is that we have to stay in for days on end just in case anybody comes... we don't know when they're coming or going," he said.

From BBC

Forget the fish tails, we mean women capable of holding their breath for minutes on end as they dive under the sea several hundred times a day.

From BBC

With interest rates finally going down for the first time in years, following a period of sticky inflation, the fear from some political forecasters is that an extended strike, lasting weeks on end, will send consumer prices soaring once again, and thus sour voters on Vice President Kamala Harris.

From Slate

Social media is awash with those who have been living one of the harsher realities of unemployment for months or even years on end: looking for a job is, itself, a job, and a relatively soul-crushing one at that.

From Salon