英语词汇at the end of one-s rope的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	at the end of one-s rope
词源	at the end of one’s rope. I’m at the end of my rope means I’ve gone as far as I can, I can’t do anymore, and suggests the image of an animal tied on a tether. The expression is first re- corded, however, in the sense of someone finally checked in wrong-doing, in a 1686 translation of a French work. This suggests that the expression may have been inspired by the sight of a man executed by hanging, dangling at the end of his rope.
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