last word | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,often preceded bytheand followed byin)Thefinest,highest, orultimaterepresentativeof someclassof objects.Synonym:exemplar1917,L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Captain Jim Crosses the Bar”, inAnne’s House of Dreams, Toronto, Ont.:McClelland & Stewart, published1920,→OCLC,page332:Little Joe's mother's cake was thelast wordin cakes; [...]1928,D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter III, inLady Chatterley’s Lover,[Germany?]: Privately printed,→OCLC:Michaelis was thelast wordin what was caddish and bounderish.; (idiomatic)Aconcludingremark;finaladvice,instructions, orobservation.1876October,Henry James, Jr., chapter XII, inThe American, Boston, Mass.:James R[ipley]Osgood and Company,[…], published5 May 1877,→OCLC,page205:["]I have got my leave, and that is all I want." / "You had better receive thelast wordfrom my mother," said the marquis. / "Very good; I will go and get it," said Newman; and he prepared to return to the drawing-room.1918,W. H. Hudson, chapter 24, inFar Away and Long Ago:[W]hen we had grasped hands for the last time and had said our last good-bye, he added this one morelast word: "Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know."; (oftensarcastic,oftenpluralized)Thefinalstatementuttered by a person beforedeath.1889September 11,Mark Twain, “Last words of great men”, inBuffalo Express‎[1], Buffalo, N.Y.:Benjamin Franklin[...] pondered over hislast wordsfor as much as two weeks, and then when the time came, he said, "None but the brave deserve the fair," and died happy.1912,Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘To-morrow We Disappear into the Unknown’”, inThe Lost World[…], London; New York, N.Y.:Hodder and Stoughton,→OCLC,page109:This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be ourlast wordto those who are interested in our fate.; (idiomatic)Afinaldecisionorremark, or therightto make one.have thelast wordget thelast word2008July 9, Jeff Israely, “Where Is the Afghan Female Runner?”, inTime‎[2], archived fromthe originalon10 August 2008:An Afghan Olympic official said the team holds the right to substitute Andyar with another female athlete, though the IOC would have thelast word.

Examples:

EN: "if it's my last word, she did."
ES: "¡Aunque estas fueran mis últimas palabras, así fue. ¡Lo juro!"
EN: Is this your last word?
ES: ¿Es esta su última palabra?
EN: - We still haven't had our last word!
ES: -- ¡Todavía no hemos dicho nuestra última palabra!
EN: This, Kriemhild, is my last word!
ES: Esta, Krimilda, ¡es mi última palabra!
EN: However, the ancestral law of Egypt must be respected, and the heir of the Pharaoh may not marry a person of lower rank It's my last word!
ES: Sin embargo, la ley ancestral de Egipto debe ser respetada, y el heredero del Faraón no podrá casarse con una persona de rango inferior ¡Es mi última palabra!
EN: I want to "x" out that last word.
ES: Quiero una "X" para la última palabra.
EN: This is the last word.
ES: Ésta es la última palabra.
EN: director, this is my last word if you don't agree on the spot...
ES: Director, resumiendo: Si no se decide ya, triplicaré la demanda.
EN: That's my last word, Kathleen.
ES: Es mi última palabra Kathleen.
EN: I've said my last word.
ES: He dicho mi última palabra.
EN: It must be sufficiently from Texas. The Blackstone. The last word in elegance.
ES: El Blackstone es muy elegante.
EN: It was the last word when the old gentleman built it.
ES: Era el último grito cuando el viejo lo construyó.
EN: Say, I'm the last word in valets.
ES: Di, soy buenísimo como ayuda de cámara.
EN: You know, pictures without perspective, well, that's the last word in art today.
ES: La ausencia de perspectiva es característica del arte moderno.
EN: Always has to have the last word.
ES: Siempre tienen que tener la última palabra.

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