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The position everyone pities and secretly fears, where finishing at all becomes its own quiet triumph.
means Coming after all others in order, time, or rank — the final one in a sequence.
from From Old English latost, the superlative of læt 'late' — so 'last' is literally 'latest,' the most-behind of all. It shares deep Germanic roots with words for slow and tardy (think Dutch laatst, German letzt). The unrelated 'last' meaning 'to endure' comes from a different Old English word, læstan 'to follow, continue,' and the shoemaker's wooden 'last' is yet a third stranger entirely — a trio of homonyms wearing the same four letters.
- marathon honor
- Last finisher often gets the loudest crowd cheers
- language quirk
- Means both final and to endure over time
- survival math
- Last one standing wins every game ever invented
- shoemaker tool
- A last is the foot-shaped mold for cobblers
- chess endgame
- Last pawn standing can become a queen
last supper — jesus christ's final meal with his 12 apostles before crucifixion, depicted by leonardo da vinci in 1495
last tango in paris — 1972 film starring marlon brando and maria schneider, banned in italy and many countries