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Discover LudwigThe phrase "arse end" is correct and usable in written English, though it is informal and somewhat vulgar.
It can be used to refer to the rear or less desirable part of something, often in a humorous or derogatory context.
Example: "After the long journey, we finally reached the arse end of the country, where the scenery was less than impressive."
Alternatives: "back end" or "rear end".
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A big purple tube that spirals down 10 storeys, like a large intestine at the arse end of the ship.
Before I wrote my first novel, I wrote a blog, "Arse End of Ireland", about life on a council estate.
It was a mediocre, rather blunt red wine which, drunk in the arse end of Clapham, tasted not of sunshine but delusion.
McInerney found her voice with a blog called Arse End of Ireland that charted life and crime on Cork's poorest council estates with black humour and desolate pathos.
It should be little surprise that the arse end of Ireland – Cork city, to be precise – is where her first novel is set.
She had previously published just one short story, but had made a name for herself with her Arse End of Ireland blog.
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I don't mean to talk down the director's hometown, but it sounds to me like the arse-end of nowhere.
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