living end, the

living end, the idiom
The utmost in any situation, something quite extraordinary, as in When he threw the stereo out the window—well, that was the living end! or That performance was the living end. [Colloquial; late 1930s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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