{"id":3460,"date":"2026-04-30T12:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:11:50","slug":"the-maritime-origin-of-to-the-bitter-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/the-maritime-origin-of-to-the-bitter-end\/","title":{"rendered":"The maritime origin of \u201cto go to the bitter end\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun CommentStart SCXW18171122 BCX4\">Did you know<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"TextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\">that the<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\">expression<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\"> \u201cto go to the bitter end<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\">\u201d has a maritime origin?<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18171122 BCX4\"><span class=\"SCXW18171122 BCX4\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\">The <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\">bitter end<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\">refers to the very end of a rope or the final link of an anchor chain.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18171122 BCX4\"><span class=\"SCXW18171122 BCX4\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\">When an anchor cable was paid out all the way to the <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\">bitter end<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\">, hauling the anchor back on board was an exhausting task.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18171122 BCX4\"><span class=\"SCXW18171122 BCX4\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW18171122 BCX4\">That\u2019s how the phrase came to mean persevering until the very last moment.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW18171122 BCX4\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the\u00a0expression \u201cto go to the bitter end\u201d has a maritime origin?\u00a0 The bitter end refers to the very end of a rope or the final link of an anchor chain.\u00a0When an anchor cable was paid out all the way to the bitter end, hauling the anchor back on board was an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-did-you-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}