at the last
Meaning
at the last
(literary or archaic) In the end, after everything, ultimately.
Synonyms
Examples
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
The stone that everybody spits upon will be wet at the last.
Blaw the wind nere so saft, it will lowen at the last.
Blaw the wind ne'er sae fast, it will lown at the last.