tail end

the hinder or rear part of anything.

the concluding or final part or section; tag end: the tail end of a lecture.

Origin of tail end

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

We sat at the tail-end of the boat, and he started in to tell funny stories.

Edison, His Life and Inventions |Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
I allowed my eyes to linger over the tail-end of the letter, while I thought.

The Message |Alec John Dawson
First, one took the carcass by the tail-end and the other by the head.

Dick in the Everglades |A. W. Dimock
"I don't understand the tail-end o' that," said Mrs. Trevarthen.

Shining Ferry |Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Come, you are not at all fit to go back into church, and I am not anxious to hear the tail-end of that wormy discourse.

Red as a Rose is She |Rhoda Broughton

tail end

the last, endmost, or final part

tail end

The rear or hindmost part, as in Douglas was at the tail end of the academic procession. [Mid-1700s]

The very end, the conclusion, as in Only at the tail end of his speech did he thank his sponsors. [Mid-1800s]