to/until the bitter end

idiom

: until the end of something that may be very bad, unpleasant, etc.

I knew she would stand by me to the bitter end.

He vowed that he would keep fighting until the bitter end.

Examples of to/until the bitter end in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

So much more than your average ghost story, Oculus is filled with mind games and jump scares that keep you on the edge of your seat until the bitter end. —Leigh Hewett, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022

Theo smoked the cigarette to the bitter end, flipped the butt into the grass, and brushed the ashes off the front of her nightshirt. —Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024

So kids are asleep on shoulders with earplugs in, and the parents are standing there until the bitter end. —Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023

But somebody that plays the games to the bitter end, tries to have it both ways, dances on the head of the pin, in my opinion, has forfeited their right to lead this country. —Nbc Universal, NBC News, 14 May 2023

There is only one way left open to him: to cling to power until the bitter end. —Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2023

Churchill badly underestimated the Japanese threat and then, in the face of the siege of Singapore, demanded that British forces fight to the bitter end. —Michael C. Desch, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023

But a handful survived to the bitter end, maintaining their seats at the corporate table through a wily deployment of guts, guile and willpower. —Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023

And the shape of it shifts, right up to the bitter end. —Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023