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loose end

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loose end
n.
A minor unresolved problem or difficulty, especially a final detail preceding the completion of something. Often used in the plural.
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Noun1.loose endloose end - work that is left incomplete
work - activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"
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German loose end loose n to be at a loose end, to be at loose ends (US) → nichts mit sich dat anzufangen wissen;
to tie up loose ends loose → die offenstehenden Probleme lösen

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It accounted for his feeling at a loose end whenever he was away from Elizabeth for as much as half an hour.
His first tribute to it, the great act of his conversion, was his extraordinary existence in the endless forests of the Okhotsk Province, with the loose end of the chain wound about his waist.
Twelve keen swords must strike simultaneously and with equal power, and each must sever completely and instantly three strands of heavy cable that no loose end fouling a block bring immediate disaster upon the Vanator.
 
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