the end of the road

noun phrase

informal

: the end (as of a condition or situation)

A loss in the primary elections will mean the end of the road for his campaign.

They reached the end of the road as a couple a long time ago.

Examples of the end of the road in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Dead & Company’s plans beyond the 60th anniversary celebration in San Francisco are unknown, so many fans will catch the shows with the possibility in mind that this could be the end of the road for the band, which retired from the touring circuit at the end of summer 2023. —Chris Willman, Variety, 23 July 2025

Tiffany Stratton got her biggest career win at WrestleMania 41 over Charlotte Flair, in a heated grudge match, and SummerSlam feels like the end of the road. —Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025

Then an earlier snapshot of Pete and Raymond with a rainbow stretching out from the end of the road, but the seed of tension is there. —Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 July 2025

At the end of the road on Tahiti Iti, the smaller island of Tahiti that hangs from Tahiti Nui like the tail of a fish, lies a singular kind of getaway. —Cassidy Randall, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025

Rhymes for the end of the road

• abode
• anode
• barcode
• bestowed
• boatload
• borrowed
• carload
• caseload
• cathode
• commode
• corrode
• crossroad