OXFORD 9000
📚 prep_phrase • entry_id 10361

on end

Meanings (ES + gloss)
y
without interruption, without stopping, continuously
The arrangement of some seats facing and some one behind the other, bus fashion, seems a sensible compromise; I am one of those who do not enjoy staring at my fellow travellers for…
These batteries last for hours on end.
de canto
upright; erect; endways
How silent, on the other hand, lie all Cotton-trades and such like; not a steeple-chimney yet got on end from sea to sea!
When he was dried he struggled into his shirt. Then, ruddy and shiny, with hair on end, and his flannelette shirt hanging over his pit-trousers, he stood warming the garments he wa…
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