the end of the line
noun phrase
informal
: the end (as of a condition or situation)
It will be the end of the line for me unless there are some changes around here.
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Yet now even Intel’s 1.8 nm chip is not the end of the line.
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Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
Rare Mileage Excursion, noon, Lebanon Mason & Monroe Railroad, 16 E. South St., Lebanon. 4-hour excursion operates all the way to the end of the line in Mason.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 20 Sep. 2024
Demise of Public Transit The end of the war marked the end of the line for streetcars.
—Jay L. Zagorsky, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2024
Free space: A little larger than macOS 14 The macOS 13 Ventura update a couple of years ago was the end of the line for a big hodgepodge of different Mac hardware, and removing the files needed to support that hardware saved quite a bit of space in macOS.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2024
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Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
Rare Mileage Excursion, noon, Lebanon Mason & Monroe Railroad, 16 E. South St., Lebanon. 4-hour excursion operates all the way to the end of the line in Mason.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 20 Sep. 2024
Demise of Public Transit The end of the war marked the end of the line for streetcars.
—Jay L. Zagorsky, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2024
Free space: A little larger than macOS 14 The macOS 13 Ventura update a couple of years ago was the end of the line for a big hodgepodge of different Mac hardware, and removing the files needed to support that hardware saved quite a bit of space in macOS.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2024
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