bitter end, to the
bitter end, to the persevering to the end, whatever the outcome. Perhaps associated with a nautical word bitter meaning the last part of a cable inboard of the bitts (strong bollards on a ship for securing mooring lines), and possibly also influenced by the biblical sentence ‘her end is bitter as wormwood’ (Proverbs 5:4).
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