Idiom
hear the end of it
Meaning
To cease to be told about, or nagged because of, something.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“If you break that vase, you will never hear the end of it.”
“I made a small mistake during the presentation, and my boss made sure I would not hear the end of it for weeks.”
“Having committed such a public blunder, he knew he would not hear the end of it from his critics for the remainder of his career.”
Examples
simple
“If you break that vase, you will never hear the end of it.”
contextual
“I made a small mistake during the presentation, and my boss made sure I would not hear the end of it for weeks.”
complex
“Having committed such a public blunder, he knew he would not hear the end of it from his critics for the remainder of his career.”
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