at the end of the day

English

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Prepositional phrase

at the end of the day

1. (idiomatic) In summary; ultimately.
   • 1991, Charles Krauthammer, "Why Arms Control Is Obsolete," Time, 5 Aug.:

     Arms control was always something between a sham and a sideshow. . . . [A]t the end of the day, a democratic Russia integrated into the West becomes no more a nuclear threat to us than Britain or France.

   • 2009, Levi Folk, "'Goldilocks' dollar is happy here," Financial Post (Canada), 24 Feb. (retrieved 25 Feb. 2009):

     At the end of the day, it is commodities that will have the biggest impact on the Canadian dollar over the next year.

Synonyms

• (in summary; ultimately): ATEOTD, basically, essentially, in summary, in the end, to recap, to summarize, to sum up, when all is said and done; see also Thesaurus:in summary

Translations

in summary; ultimately

• Catalan: al cap i a la fi (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 到頭來／到头来 (zh) (dàotóulái), 到头来 (zh) (dàotóulái), 最終／最终 (zh) (zuìzhōng), 最终 (zh) (zuìzhōng), 畢竟／毕竟 (zh) (bìjìng), 毕竟 (zh) (bìjìng)

• Danish: til syvende og sidst, når alt kommer til alt
• Dutch: uiteindelijk (nl), aan het einde van de rit
• Finnish: loppupeleissä, loppupelissä, lopulta (fi), kaiken kaikkiaan (fi)
• French: en fin de compte (fr), au final (fr), au bout du compte (fr)
• German: letzten Endes
• Greek: τελοσπάντων (telospánton)
• Hungarian: végsősoron
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• Irish: i ndeireadh na dála
• Italian: per ultima cosa, in fin dei conti (it)
• Maltese: fl-aħħar tal-ġurnata, fi tmiem il-jum
• Polish: koniec końców, ostatecznie (pl), w ostatecznym rozrachunku
• Portuguese: no fim das contas
• Russian: в конце́ концо́в (ru) (v koncé koncóv)
• Scottish Gaelic: aig a' cheann thall
• Spanish: al fin y al cabo, a fin de cuentas
• Swedish: i slutändan (sv), till syvende och sist (sv)
• Welsh: yn y pen draw, pan ddaw hi'n gyfrif, ar derfyn y dydd