end of the rope
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| 5 | Having reached A Dead End |
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| 4 | I can't do it because I've reached the limits of what I can do. |
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| 3 | a point of utter exhaustion |
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21 hrs confidence: 
a point of utter exhaustion Explanation: The idiom is "at the end of (one's) rope". https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/at the end of (one's) r... |
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1 day 4 hrs confidence:
Having reached A Dead End Explanation: It means having reached a dead end in anything, such as Career, A Problem( unable to solve), Personal Life and so on. There is nowhere else to go . Example sentence(s):
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1 day 14 hrs confidence:
| I can't do it from the end of the rope I can't do it because I've reached the limits of what I can do. Explanation: a variation on "no more rope available" in climbing. It doesn't look like the "rope" in this story is of the hangman's variety. |
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