a bad end

Meaning

1. a bad / sticky end

   something unpleasant that happens to sb, for example punishment or a violent death, usually because of their own actions

   He'll come to a sticky end one of these days if he carries on like that.

In the movies · 2

• The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily.Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead1991
• I knew he'd come to a bad end.The Stranger1946

From the same entry

• at the end of the day
• be at the end of
• be at the end of your tether
• be the end
• an end in itself
• the end justifies the means
• the end of the line
• end of story
• end to end
• get your end away
• go to the ends of the earth
• in the end