The phrase "a last inch" is not commonly used in written English and may not convey a clear meaning without context.
It could be used in a context where you are referring to a final small measurement or distance, but it is not a standard expression.
Example: "After measuring the space, we realized we only had a last inch to work with for the installation."
Alternatives: "a final inch" or "the last bit".
To get a sense of how Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dominates German literature, we would have to imagine a Shakespeare known to the last inch — a Shakespeare squared or cubed.
If we want companionship, then a cat or dog doesn't answer back, doesn't tell you your waistline has expanded and doesn't raise an annoying eyebrow when you glug the last inch in a bottle of wine.
Howe's heroes, in this volume, are installation artists: Isabella Stewart Gardner, who planned, down to the last inch, a museum to house her art collection and arranged, in her will, for its dismantling if anyone altered its organization; and Paul Thek, whose posthumous retrospective at the Whitney, in 2010, impressed Howe deeply.
One of my first girlfriends in high school was a Mormon girl and to this day, if I sit real still and close my eyes, I can get a perfect visual of her crumpled over my teenage bed, taking every last inch of a silver dildo into her butt.
As the cut rose you obtained from the florist's may not be freshly picked, it's best to trim off the last inch and a half of stem.
And with thick or thin, you can snap the bottoms off or go the easier route and just chop off the last inch or two with a chef's knife.
They made it okay to loathe myself because of the way that I looked and to spend hours trying to improve every last inch of body so that a man would desire me.
For Israelis, they can be reassured (if they are on the Right) that they have a government that intends to fight for every last inch of occupied land.
The stem of the broccoli is completely edible, but the last inch or so will be a bit tougher and not as tasty.
Not a problem for Machine Code though; they fill every last inch of these voids with heavily-compressed drums, pounding basslines, and seizure-inducing undercurrents.
