E
Idioms beginning with "E"
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Contents of E:
[elbow room] {n.}
Adequate space to move around or to work in.
He doesn't require a huge office, but we must at least give him elbow room.
[eleventh hour] {adj. phr.}
Pertaining to the last minutes; the last opportunity to accomplish a task.
The editors made several eleventh hour changes in the headlines of the morning paper.
[end]
See:
[AT LOOSE ENDS],
[AT ONE'S WITS' END],
[BURN THE CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS],
[GO OFF THE DEEP END],
[HAIR STAND ON END],
[HOLD ONE'S END UP] or [HOLD UP ONE'S END] or [KEEP ONE'S END UP] or [KEEP UP ONE'S END],
[LIVING END],
[LOOSE ENDS],
[…]
[end for end] {adv. phr.}
In a reversed or opposite position (as upside down or backwards); the other way around; over.
The box turned end for end as it fell, and everything spilled out.
The wind caught the canoe and turned it end for end.
[end in itself] {n. phr.}
Something wanted for its own sake; a purpose, aim, or goal we want for itself alone and not as a way to something else.
The miser never spent his gold because for him it was an end in itself.
[end of one's rope] or [end of one's tether] {n. phr.}, {informal}
The end of your trying or imagining; the last of your ability, or ideas of how to do more.
Frank was out of work and broke, and he was at the end of his rope.
* /The doctor saw […]
[end of the road] or [end of the line] {n. phr.}
The final result or end (as of a way of action or behavior); the condition that comes when you can do no more.
* /He had left a trail of forgery and dishonesty across seven states; he had got out of each […]