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rope's end

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noun

  1. a short piece of rope, esp as formerly used for flogging sailors

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Jane Fonda is at rope's end in her latest movie, Comes a Horseman Wild and Free, now filming in Colorado.

From Time Magazine Archive

You were dragged into it at a rope's end .

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At the rope's end is a metal hook.

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If Franklin Roosevelt thought the New Deal had reached its fiscal rope's end, he did not show it.

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I select a rock, slightly bigger than my hand, and tie it to the rope’s end.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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