End Phrases

Phrases

• 101 Dalmatians (Disney cartoon and Glenn Close movie)
• A close thing
• A goal in mind
• A good beginning makes a good ending
• A means to an end
• Aim high
• All good things must come to an end
• All's Well, That Ends Well
• Alpha and omega (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, used as a name for God or Jesus)
• And so to bed
• At a loose end
• At close quarters
• At the end of a gun
• At the end of the day
• At the end of your rope
• At the end of your tether
• At your wits' end
• Axe to grind
• Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me (from a poem by Dickinson)
• Best stop now
• Blind Before I Stop (Meatloaf song)
• Blind alley
• Brilliant cleaning starts with Finish (Finish Detergent advertising slogan)
• Bring to an end
• Burn the candle at both ends
• Business end
• Can't see beyond the end of your nose
• Cheer up, it's not the end of the world
• Classic Hollywood ending
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Richard Dreyfuss movie)
• Close call
• Close enough for government work
• Close enough for jazz
• Close friends
• Close of play
• Close proximity
• Close quarters
• Close ranks
• Close shave
• Close the books
• Close to home
• Close to the bone
• Close to the mark
• Close your eyes and think of England
• Close, but no cigar
• Come to a screeching halt
• Come to a sticky end
• Dangerous Liaisons (Glenn Close movie)
• Dead end
• Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
• Don't Stand So Close To Me (Police song)
• Don't Stop Believin' (Journey song)
• Don't Stop Me Now (Queen song)
• Don't close your eyes for a minute
• Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
• Draw to a close
• End in itself
• End of a perfect day
• End of an era
• End of story
• End of the ball game
• End of the line
• End product
• End up at
• Every stick has two ends
• Face that could stop a clock
• Fairytale ending (a happy simplistic ending to a story similar to those found in fairy tales)
• Fatal Attraction (Glenn Close / Michael Douglas movie)
• From the ends of the earth
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Get to the end of your tether
• Get your end away
• Go off the deep end
• Grind to a halt
• Have your hair stand on end
• Holding your cards close to your chest
• I Can't Stop Loving You (Ray Charles song)
• I've started so I'll finish (A catchphrase from Mastermind)
• If enough people would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth (Cinzano advertising slogan)
• It will all end in tears
• It's The End Of The World As We Know It (R.E.M. song)
• Journey's end
• Keep your end up

• Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer (proverbial saying)
• Know which end is up
• Light at the end of the tunnel
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Loose ends
• Make ends meet
• Makes your hair stands on end
• Never hear the end of it
• Nice guys finish last
• Ninth inning (A baseball expression meaning an event or process is near the end)
• No end of
• Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning
• Odds and ends
• On the receiving end
• On your beam ends
• Once you pop you can't stop (Pringles advertising slogan)
• One stop shop
• Photo finish
• Play both ends against the middle
• Put an end to
• Ring down the curtain
• Sail close to the wind
• Score an own goal
• Shallow end
• Shit (or short) end of the stick
• Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
• Short end of the stick
• Sign off
• Sitting target
• Soft target
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Stop and smell the roses
• Stop at nothing
• Stop drop and roll
• Stop faffing about
• Stop it you're killing me
• Stop me and buy one (Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan)
• Stop me if you've heard this one
• Stop messing about (A catchphrase from Kenneth Williams)
• Stop on a dime
• Stop pumping your gums
• Stop the clock, I've found a clue
• Stop the rot
• Stop the show
• Stop the world I want to get off
• Stop traffic
• Stop! In The Name Of Love (The Supremes song)
• Stop, In The Name Of Love
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
• Take aim
• The Axe effect (Axe deodorant advertising slogan)
• The Blue End State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The End Of The World (Nickname of Anchorage Alaska)
• The be all and end all
• The beginning of the end
• The bitter end
• The deep end
• The end of civilization as we know it
• The end of the road
• The end of the world is nigh
• The ends justify the means
• The ends of the Earth
• The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• The means to an end
• The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
• The shit end of the stick
• The short end of the stick
• The thick end of
• The war to end wars
• Thin end of the wedge
• Thrown in at the deep end
• Tie up the loose ends
• Till the end of time
• To cut a long story short
• Too close for comfort
• Too close to call
• Toward this end
• Until the last dog is hung
• Up close and personal
• We aim to please
• We never stop working for you (Verizon Wireless advertising slogan)
• When you are in a hole, stop digging
• World without end

Related

• A means to an end
• All good things must come to an end
• At a loose end
• At the end of a gun
• At the end of the day
• At the end of your rope
• At the end of your tether
• At your wits' end
• Bring to an end
• Business end
• Can't see beyond the end of your nose
• Cheer up, it's not the end of the world
• Come to a sticky end
• Dead end
• Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
• End in itself
• End of a perfect day
• End of an era
• End of story
• End of the ball game
• End of the line
• End product
• End up at
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Get to the end of your tether
• Get your end away
• Go off the deep end
• Have your hair stand on end
• It will all end in tears
• It's The End Of The World As We Know It (R.E.M. song)
• Journey's end
• Keep your end up
• Know which end is up
• Light at the end of the tunnel
• Makes your hair stands on end
• Never hear the end of it
• Ninth inning (A baseball expression meaning an event or process is near the end)
• No end of
• Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning
• On the receiving end
• Put an end to
• Shallow end
• Shit (or short) end of the stick
• Short end of the stick
• The Blue End State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The End Of The World (Nickname of Anchorage Alaska)
• The be all and end all
• The beginning of the end
• The bitter end
• The deep end
• The end of civilization as we know it
• The end of the road
• The end of the world is nigh
• The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• The means to an end
• The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
• The shit end of the stick
• The short end of the stick
• The thick end of
• The war to end wars
• Thin end of the wedge
• Thrown in at the deep end
• Till the end of time
• Toward this end
• World without end