a means to an end
Meanings of "a means to an end"
something that you do because it will help you to achieve something else, e.g.:
I didn't really like the job but it paid the bills. It was just a means to an end.
何かをするのは、それが他の何かを達成するのに役立つからだ。
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"a means to an end" in lyrics
Helluva Boss (OST) - Just Look My Way (2023 Version)
What you are, so I'll grant you this mercy this bind- on our souls needs to end
I will try to make amends, for making you means to an end
So, look my way, please, look my way
PARANOiD DJ - Just Look My Way
[Stolas breathes shakily]
I will try to make amends, for making you means to an end
So, look my way, please, look my way
Take 'em all with your friends, yeah
And I don’t even wanna pretend
Should've listened when they told me it's a means to an end, yeah
And now I'm all on the fence
Die Fantastischen Vier - She's gone
To think that I find no other girl
One girl's gone, so what?
Wasn't she only a means to an end to you and a reason
To hide behind her, looking at other girls was taboo
Neru - Whatever~Whatever~Whatever~
They wait for treats with smooth talk
But flee the moment they see their prey.
They say lies are a means to an end
So I don't expect any sympathy, whatever.
At my door you're welcome in
There can be no transgression
As a means to an end
On the wind the wolves are howling
Unloved - When a Woman is Around
I don't pretend to know the ways of the world
A means to an end seems the way
Whoever has the most of whatever is best
Megadeth - Foreclosure of a Dream
Rise so high, yet so far to fall
A plan of dignity and balance for all
Political breakthrough, euphoria's high
More borrowed money, more borrowed time
We live, love grocery as a means to an end (Babylon)
We live it, live it and toss it away
We live, love grocery as a means to an end
We live it
Alongside me, you've never borne witness to one bit of cheer
Every quests brings you home with another wound1
And then you have the audacity to tell me to "forget all my lamentations!"
- 1. Literally "Every time, you come back from the mishwaar with a wound." "mishwaar" means going out when it's actually a means to an end, and not just for recreation. So "quest," only it doesn't sound as RPG-esque in Arabic. So more like saying somebody's "away on business" or something. It's a great word to use to be evasive. Put-upon Wife: "Where have you been all evening?" Cheating Husband: "I was on a mishwaar" = "I was on a quest, M'Lady!" = "Just some work stuff I had to attend to."
Time is just a means to an end
Who are you to decide since it all comes down on me?
I can end your suffering so
Take my hand I'll never let you go
Too late to be a good girl today?
Bury my new friend, means to an end
Decomposing sailor shirts
Six weeks later, she starts to see colour
And you swear that no harm will come to her or her mother
Your means to an end, well it's starting to suffer, say
Miracle of Sound - Wake The White Wolf
Keen to the scent, the hunt is my muse
A means to an end this path that I choose
Lost and aloof are the loves of my past
Morphine, aspirin, fentanyl
Paracetamol
325mg red
325mg rose
So I'll suffer through
A means to an end, it's all I can do
You wanna move mountains?
There’s no time to pretend
That what you see
It has no means to an end
With all that’s good
My madness is a means to an end,
This nihilism has become my friend
It's wrong but I do it for me
Conscience, a waste of energy
Seal him in
Believe in
Project a means to an end
What he breaks we will mend
This is the pen
This is my weapon
A means to an end