Put up litter bins and ash trays for their dog-ends and it just legitimises it more from an acceptability stance.
I wandered despondently along, trailing my new sports bag through the dog-ends and sweet wrappers that littered the concrete of the playground.
We now see many bars and establishments in a number of areas around New Zealand where smokers congregate outside, and as we walk past we see dog-ends littering the pavements.
I stirred it with my foot then stubbed out the dog-end on the linoleum.
Synonyms
butt, stub, stump, remnant, fragment, vestige
1.1The last and least pleasing part of something.
〈非正式〉最后也是最不满意的一部分
the dog-end of a hard day
艰难的一天最难的最后一段时间。
Example sentencesExamples
I relaxed into the dog-end of the afternoon to enjoy the loch's beauty, vaguely aware of increasingly frantic efforts from the other end of the boat.
Budget 2004 was one the government could have done without: an obligatory address in the dog-end of a parliament.
By this point I had learnt the crucial lesson that however nice the day is, however much you want to hold on to the dog-end of summer, undertaking a three-hour walk in flip-flops is a really stupid idea.
I guess we can tell that we are at the dog-end when the best the Government can do is present to Parliament bills of this nature for consideration.
The cartoonists portray the dog-end days of December as Old Man Time, complete with scythe, calling the year to its doom.
It's December at the dog-end of the last century and Liam slouches on a sofa in a Santa Monica hotel, curling his bottom lip and affecting disinterest.
Definition of dog-end in US English:
dog-end
nounˈdôɡ ˌendˈdɔɡ ˌɛnd
British informal
1A cigarette butt.
〈非正式〉烟头
Example sentencesExamples
We now see many bars and establishments in a number of areas around New Zealand where smokers congregate outside, and as we walk past we see dog-ends littering the pavements.
I stirred it with my foot then stubbed out the dog-end on the linoleum.
Put up litter bins and ash trays for their dog-ends and it just legitimises it more from an acceptability stance.
I wandered despondently along, trailing my new sports bag through the dog-ends and sweet wrappers that littered the concrete of the playground.
Synonyms
butt, stub, stump, remnant, fragment, vestige
1.1The last and least pleasing part of something.
〈非正式〉最后也是最不满意的一部分
the dog-end of a hard day
艰难的一天最难的最后一段时间。
Example sentencesExamples
Budget 2004 was one the government could have done without: an obligatory address in the dog-end of a parliament.
I guess we can tell that we are at the dog-end when the best the Government can do is present to Parliament bills of this nature for consideration.
It's December at the dog-end of the last century and Liam slouches on a sofa in a Santa Monica hotel, curling his bottom lip and affecting disinterest.
By this point I had learnt the crucial lesson that however nice the day is, however much you want to hold on to the dog-end of summer, undertaking a three-hour walk in flip-flops is a really stupid idea.
The cartoonists portray the dog-end days of December as Old Man Time, complete with scythe, calling the year to its doom.
I relaxed into the dog-end of the afternoon to enjoy the loch's beauty, vaguely aware of increasingly frantic efforts from the other end of the boat.