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. —

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 See all Example Sentences for the end of the line

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