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Phrase(s): end up (as) (something)
to become something at the end of everything. • I always knew I would end up as a doctor. • If I don’t get a job, I will end up a beggar., Phrase(s): end up
to come to an end. • When will all this end up? • I think that the party will have to end up about midnight., Phrase(s): end something up
to terminate something; to bring something to an end. • He ended his vacation up by going to the beach. • She ended up her speech with a poem., Phrase(s): end up (by) doing something [and] wind up (by)
doing something 1. to conclude something by doing something. • We ended up by going back to my house. • They danced until midnight and wound up by having pizza in the front room. 2. to end by doing something [anyway]. • I wound up by going home early., Phrase(s): end up (somewhere) [and] wind up (somewhere)
to finish at a certain place. • If you don’t get straightened out, you’ll end up in jail. • I fell and hurt myself, and I wound up in the hospital., Phrase(s): end up (somehow)
to end something at a particular place, in a particular state, or by having to do something. • I ended up having to pay for everyone’s dinner. • After paying for dinner, I ended up broke. • We all ended up at my house. • After playing in the rain, we all ended up with colds.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Arrive at, result in, finish. For example, He thought he'd end up living in the city, or We don't know how Nancy will end up. [First half of 1900s] Also see WIND UP.
American Heritage Idioms