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Meaning: (idiomatic,colloquial,chiefly in the negative)To cease to be told about, or nagged because of, something.If I spilled wine on their new carpet, I'd neverhear the end of it.1910, New Zealand. Parliament,Parliamentary Debates[1], volume153, page1156:The Right Hon[orable]Sir J. G. Ward. — Mr. Symes did not know it. They published this private and confidential letter without either Mr. Symes's or Mr. McCluggage's knowledge or consent. Why, if any of us were to do that sort of thing we would neverhear the end of it, nor would any one elsehear the end ofthe improper use of a letter which was beyond all question private and confidential.1992, Tim Lautzenheiser, “The Proverbial Summer Vacation” (chapter 47), inThe Art of Successful Teaching: A Blend of Content & Context[2], page198:[…]What happens at the end of July? Seems like those dates ring a bell. I know, it's our state bandmaster's convention. This is the year they are having all those great clinicians. I helped set up the program from our region. No choice: if I don't attend and go to our annual breakfast, I'll neverhear the end of it. That's not too bad, it will be fun and there is still all of August to jump in the boat and do some serious fishing.2023, torr, “drywall”, inmoleculeft. patchymate:Kill your dreams if male validation is all that you need / Being a man ain't all that it seems / Yeah, by all means, bro, say what you need / I'll neverhear the end of it[…]2024April 15, @XxKilla_KrisxX,Twitter[3]:berdly if your friends were homestuck characters who would they be. //sorry autism wants me dead, berdlys my fav character andhsis myspin. you will neverheard the end of itfrom me; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seehear,the,end,of,it.1812,Arabian Nights[4], page11:Here Scheherazade, perceiving day, left off her story, which did so much whet the sultan's curiosity, that he was absolutely resolved tohear the end of it, and put off the sultaness's execution till the next day.1991, Sheila Greeve Davaney,Theology at the End of Modernity: Essays in Honor of Gordon D. Kaufman[5], page188:The experience of the beginning of the word when Ihear the end of itmust conform in some measure to what I heard a moment ago.
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