au bout du rouleau

French

Alternative forms

  • au bout de son rouleau (rare)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /o bu dy ʁu.lo/
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Adjective

au bout du rouleau (invariable)

  1. exhausted, on one's last legs, at the end of one's tether
  2. broke, ruined

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