the final word

the final word

1. The final point in an argument or discussion, especially that which decisively or conclusively ends it. The whole meeting just descended into chaos as everyone tried to have the final word. David is so smug and always has to have the final word in every debate.
2. The authority to decide how something ultimately happens or is done. As the editor-in-chief, I have the final word on the layout design for every issue.
See also: final, word
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

your/the last/final ˈword (on/about something)

your, etc. final decision or statement about something: ‘Will you take £900?’ ‘No, £1 000 and that’s my last word.’ Is that your final word on the matter?
See also: final, last, word
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
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References in classic literature
This is the final word of a ship's ended journey, the closing word of her toil and of her achievement.
The morning was made cheerful by Rebecca's start for school, the packing of the luncheon basket, the final word about umbrella, waterproof, or rubbers; the parting admonition and the unconscious waiting at the window for the last wave of the hand.
His thin lips, like the dies of a machine, stamped out phrases that cut and stung; or again, pursing caressingly about the inchoate sound they articulated, the thin lips shaped soft and velvety things, mellow phrases of glow and glory, of haunting beauty, reverberant of the mystery and inscrutableness of life; and yet again the thin lips were like a bugle, from which rang the crash and tumult of cosmic strife, phrases that sounded clear as silver, that were luminous as starry spaces, that epitomized the final word of science and yet said something more - the poet's word, the transcendental truth, elusive and without words which could express, and which none the less found expression in the subtle and all but ungraspable connotations of common words.
The final word on the whole matter was recently spoken by George C.
" 'Carriage to be at the door at two-thirty,' " said Lady Lundie, repeating the final words of the memorandum while she wrote them.
The final word:The final word: A handsome but ultimately half-baked platforming adventure.
And it was Hodgson who eventually had the final word with a 70th-minute penalty.
Euro$ interest rate futures sank lower in the wake of Fed Mester's hawkish remarks earlier from Jackson Hole, which trumped those of Bullard who wanted to "stand pat." This inspired a little pre-Powell volatility, though he will have the final word. Will he split the difference?
But like the last time when Nawaz was removed from the post of PM this time around too he is likely to have the final word in major decision-making within the party.
15 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik on Wednesday said the Supreme Court will have the final word on the vexed Ayodhya issue.
1 Duda 61 Bale 10 Robson-Kanu 81 REFEREE: Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway) ATTENDANCE: 42,000 THIS regular Monday morning feature is always titled The Final Word, a last analysis of the Saturday afternoon match in which everyone under the sun has had their say.
If this is the final word then we can all finally end the speculation.
These are the key issues, a dilemma whether fear is so high that everyone will keep quiet and politics will have the final word? Regardless the red light, banks and businessmen are still optimists that a quick political outcome will be found and the economy will be sound.
In order the proposal of the new coat of arms to be adopted, 82 votes pro and Badenter voting are necessary, and Albanian MPs have the final word.
The Knitters had the final word as Brown curled a free-kick past the Worcester keeper with the final kick of the game.