on end | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)withoutinterruption, withoutstopping,continuouslyThese batteries last for hourson end.1964July, Mary Allen, “A Woman's View of the New Coaches”, inModern Railways, page 9:The arrangement of some seats facing and some one behind the other, bus fashion, seems a sensible compromise; I am one of those who do not enjoy staring at my fellow travellers for perhaps hourson end.; (dated)upright;erect;endways1843April,Thomas Carlyle, “chapter 5, ’’Twelfth Century’’”, inPast and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.:Charles C[offin] LittleandJames Brown, published1843,→OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):How silent, on the other hand, lie all Cotton-trades and such like; not a steeple-chimney yet goton endfrom sea to sea!1913,D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 8, inSons and Lovers, London:Duckworth & Co.[…],→OCLC:When he was dried he struggled into his shirt. Then, ruddy and shiny, with hairon end, and his flannelette shirt hanging over his pit-trousers, he stood warming the garments he was going to put on.

Examples:

EN: Put them on end weer them.
ES: Póngaselos y llévelos.
EN: He did not go off like this for weeks on end.
ES: Jamás estuvo tantas semanas fuera.
EN: But if you shut a person up in one room for years on end you can't very well expect to find her bursting with life and vigor.
ES: Pero si se encierra a una persona durante años en una habitación no se puede esperar que esté llena de vida.
EN: Yes, how you manage to keep your dear wife is a mystery to me. Skirmishing off the way you do. Leaving her alone, months on end.
ES: Sí, no sé cómo logras mantener a tu esposa a tu lado, yéndote de excursión y dejándola sola durante meses.
EN: Danger, like red light on end of moving train, now safely past.
ES: El peligro, como la luz roja detrás de un tren en movimiento, ya pasó.
EN: I just saw something that'd make your hair stand on end.
ES: Acabo de ver algo que te va a dejar de piedra.
EN: Sometimes for days on end, he wouldn't speak to me.
ES: A veces no me hablaba durante días enteros.
EN: That went on for days on end.
ES: Eso se prolongó durante días y días.
EN: For hours on end if we did that We'd find it so entirely gruelling
ES: Si hiciéramos como ellos, durante horas, sería agotador.
EN: Sometimes he would remain away from home on days on end. With the flimsy excuse that he was fishing, or some such nonsense.
ES: A veces se iba de casa durante días y días con la débil escusa de irse a pescar o alguna otra tontería.
EN: Sometimes he would remain away from home for days on end, with the flimsy excuse...
ES: A veces se iba de casa durante días y días, con la débil escusa...
EN: I know some that will make your hair stand on end. I choose Sonny, Bertie, Camilla and José.
ES: Lo siento, pensé que todos en este piso se habían ido a casa.
EN: Well, Charlie, this'll make a lot of people's hair stand on end.
ES: Bien, Charlie, esto le pondrá los pelos de punta a mucha gente.
EN: Pointed on end and long enough to inflict very deep wound.
ES: Con punta y lo suficientemente largas para hacer una herida profunda.
EN: As ambassador he danced for nights on end.
ES: Como embajador bailó noches enteras

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