From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe beginning of the endthe beginning of the endthe time when something good starts to end → beginning
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the beginning of the end• Can this be the beginning of the end for vastly over priced computer training courses?• Would this be the beginning of the end of the regime?• One seat: Was it the beginning of the end?• In retrospect it is clear to me that my arrival at Salomon marked the beginning of the end of that hallowed institution.• His death was the beginning of the end, the ultimate cause, as Rex sees it, of his own injuries.• It was the beginning of the end.• The failure of those protests was the beginning of the end of a postwar dream of social transformation through political means.• Mandela's release was the beginning of the end of apartheid.• That, according to a 150-page draft report, was the beginning of the end. 