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The most satisfying liar — promising rest while quietly demanding what comes next.
means To bring something to its end, or to reach that end yourself — completing a task, a meal, a race, or a journey.
from From Old French 'feniss-', the stretched stem of 'fenir' (to end), which grows straight out of Latin 'finire' — to limit, to bound, to set a boundary. At its root sits 'finis', the Latin word for 'end' or 'border', the same ancestor that gives us 'final', 'finite', and 'define'. So to finish is, quite literally, to draw the line where a thing stops.
- photo finish
- Cameras shoot 2,000+ frames per second to judge winners.
- furniture finish
- The protective coat, not the wood, that you actually touch.
- strong finish
- Sprinters who pace last often beat early leaders.
- word origin
- From Latin finis, meaning boundary or end.
- wine talk
- The taste lingering after you swallow, judged in seconds.