What do people mean when they say, "Right to the bitter end!"?

Question

Holding on to the "Bitter end" or not giving up until the "Bitter end" What the end that this phrase refrers to and how does anyone know that the "End" is bitter if they are talking about Death? Everyone who has die and come back to life has discribed death as something wonderful and returning to this exsistance something they didn't want to do. So where did the "Bitter end " phrase come from?

Answer 1

Bitter end. it tastes bitter. there is nothingness. emptiness. death is the lacking of existance.

sorry to pop ur bubble. but if you died, your not coming back.. people dont "half" die.

Answer 2

One time all pills were bitter to the taste,and there used to be 2 expressions 1. Life is a bitter pill (if someone had a hard life or one of sickness) 2. Death is a bitter pill to take, thuss bitter end.NOTE I'm not real sure of this but this is the way some old people would explain it.

Answer 3

The bitter end has very little to do with bitterness as a flavor or a negative experience. The bitter end of a rope on a sailing ship was the end that was first attached to a capstan.

The similarity with "bitter" as an unpleasant sort of thing tended to confuse the two.