all ends up en · ADV
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(UK, idiomatic, informal, not-comparable) Completely; totally.
The staff are fronting for him all ends up, casually phoning his known watering holes, plus anyone he might have gone to earth with, and doing their damnedest not to raise a storm.
1999, John Le Carré, Single & Single, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 92:Garry Sobers did me all ends up in the first innings, trapped lbw by a delivery that swung prodigiously – the best delivery I have ever faced in cricket.
1987, Geoffrey Boycott, Boycott: The Autobiography, Pan Books, →ISBN, page 110:I do not think that he would have possessed much chance at a mile against the mighty son of Oxford under any circumstances, and, being stiff and sore from his exertions of the preceding day, he was beaten all ends up.
1901, Sydenham Dixon, From Gladiateur to Persimmon: Turf Memories of Thirty Years, Grant Richards, page 50:
Synonyms
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