stone end
An Australian and New Zealand slang phrase meaning the absolute limit, the bitter end, or the furthest extreme of something — often used to describe a situation that has reached its worst or most exhausting point.
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An Australian and New Zealand slang phrase meaning the absolute limit, the bitter end, or the furthest extreme of something — often used to describe a situation that has reached its worst or most exhausting point. Stone end captures that feeling of having pushed something as far as it can possibly go, whether it's a relationship, a project, or your patience. It's blunt, vivid, and characteristically antipodean in its no-nonsense delivery.
By hour six of the road trip with the kids fighting in the back seat, she'd hit the stone end of her tolerance.
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(AU, NZ) The limit; the bitter end.
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(chiefly, Australia) The part of something which is the most extreme in some aspect (for example, the most difficult, the latest chronologically or the highest numerically).
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