finish line

English

Noun

finish line (plural finish lines)

  1. (sports) A line marking the end of a race.
    The five exhausted runners crossed the finish line one after the other.
  2. (figuratively, by extension) The end of a process.
    • 2017 January 21, Andy Hunter, “Gylfi Sigurdsson and Swansea stun Liverpool in five-goal thriller”, in the Guardian:
      The race to the finish line has started already according to Jürgen Klopp and by those punishing standards Liverpool have faltered badly.

Synonyms

Translations

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.