fag end

• Umgangssprachlicher britischer Ausdruck für den letzten Rest oder das Ende von etwas, oft für einen Zigarettenstummel oder den unangenehmsten, letzten Teil einer Sache.

An informal British term referring to the last part or remnant of something, often used for the butt of a cigarette or the final, least desirable portion of an event or object.

1. C1informalbritish

   The last or remaining part of something, often considered the least valuable or most unpleasant.

   Rest

   • We only caught the fag end of the movie.
   • He was left with the fag end of the work.
   • She lived in the fag end of the village.

2. Cigarette buttB2informalbritish

   The unsmoked end of a cigarette.

   Zigarettenstummel

   • He stubbed out his fag end in the ashtray.
   • The street was littered with fag ends.
   • She picked up the fag end from the floor.