ends

Related to ends: Ends of the Earth, Ends justify the means

ends

1. n. money. (Streets.) You got enough ends to get you through the week?

2. n. shoes. (Streets.) You even got holes in your ends.

See also: end

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

See also:

make ends meet, to
make buckle and tongue meet
bad off
badly
end to end
all ends up
economy
false economy
it isn't even funny
it's not even funny

References in classic literature

Ends, whose cranky eyes justified themselves in his shortness of temper.

Ends was choking, and it was not until the grip on his throat was eased that he was able to signify his acquiescence in the digging-up programme.

Martin Eden

And can she or can she not fulfil her own ends when deprived of that excellence?

I will proceed by asking a question: Would you not say that a horse has some end?

Republic

When it was ended, the people clapped their hands and the animals clapped their paws, while Billina cackled and the Donkey King brayed approval.

The Road to Oz

When the story is ended, my love, when the story is ended--

Quest of the Golden Girl

"He was to blame in wearing away his youth in contemplation with the end of poetizing in his manhood.

Even Stamboul, it is said, shall have an end, and the most unlucky blunders must come to a conclusion.

Poems

The endless ballad had come to an end at last, and the whole diminished company about the camp-fire had broken into the chorus I had heard so often:

At the end of the straits, I made sure we must fall into some bar of raging breakers, where all my troubles would be ended speedily; and though I could, perhaps, bear to die, I could not bear to look upon my fate as it approached.

Treasure Island

Of course, Howards End was impossible, so long as the younger couple were established in Hilton.

Howards End

Franklin's visit here to come to an end. It's my belief that he won't be long now before he leaves the house."

The Moonstone

This play is meant to picture the life of every man or woman, and to show how unhappy we may be in the end if we have not tried to be good in this world.

English Literature For Boys And Girls

"My prospects in China are all at an end. The Firm to which I was brutally consigned, as if I was a bale of merchandise, has worn out my patience by a series of petty insults; and I have felt compelled, from motives of self-respect, to withdraw my services, which were undervalued from the first.

No Name

However, this did not matter, for there was a box rather like an ice-cream machine, and you put chunks of pork in at one end and turned a handle and they came out as sausages at the other end.

The Little White Bird

词组	ends
释义	ends Related to ends: Ends of the Earth, Ends justify the means ends 1. n. money. (Streets.) You got enough ends to get you through the week? 2. n. shoes. (Streets.) You even got holes in your ends. See also: end McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions See also: make ends meet, to make buckle and tongue meet bad off badly end to end all ends up economy false economy it isn't even funny it's not even funny References in classic literature Ends, whose cranky eyes justified themselves in his shortness of temper. Ends was choking, and it was not until the grip on his throat was eased that he was able to signify his acquiescence in the digging-up programme. Martin Eden And can she or can she not fulfil her own ends when deprived of that excellence? I will proceed by asking a question: Would you not say that a horse has some end? Republic When it was ended, the people clapped their hands and the animals clapped their paws, while Billina cackled and the Donkey King brayed approval. The Road to Oz When the story is ended, my love, when the story is ended-- Quest of the Golden Girl "He was to blame in wearing away his youth in contemplation with the end of poetizing in his manhood. Even Stamboul, it is said, shall have an end, and the most unlucky blunders must come to a conclusion. Poems The endless ballad had come to an end at last, and the whole diminished company about the camp-fire had broken into the chorus I had heard so often: At the end of the straits, I made sure we must fall into some bar of raging breakers, where all my troubles would be ended speedily; and though I could, perhaps, bear to die, I could not bear to look upon my fate as it approached. Treasure Island Of course, Howards End was impossible, so long as the younger couple were established in Hilton. Howards End Franklin's visit here to come to an end. It's my belief that he won't be long now before he leaves the house." The Moonstone This play is meant to picture the life of every man or woman, and to show how unhappy we may be in the end if we have not tried to be good in this world. English Literature For Boys And Girls "My prospects in China are all at an end. The Firm to which I was brutally consigned, as if I was a bale of merchandise, has worn out my patience by a series of petty insults; and I have felt compelled, from motives of self-respect, to withdraw my services, which were undervalued from the first. No Name However, this did not matter, for there was a box rather like an ice-cream machine, and you put chunks of pork in at one end and turned a handle and they came out as sausages at the other end. The Little White Bird
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