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a. (context idiomatic English) being the victim of an unpleasant action alt. (context idiomatic English) being the victim of an unpleasant action
Usage examples of "on the receiving end".
Or to be more precise, I tried to shrug -- it's not that easy when one wrist is handcuffed above your head and the other arm is on the receiving end of an intravenous drip.
He simply did not consider, would not let himself consider, the sentient beings on the receiving end.
Larssen had been on the receiving end of bombardments back in Chicago.
The latter were teleportation devices which did not require any equipment on the receiving end-in other words, with these it was possible to transmit an atomic bomb into the hold of an enemy spaceship, even though the enemy might be otherwise well-protected by force-fields.
The globe on the receiving end began to glow and turned white, radiating waves of constantly rising temperatures.
Howell had seen his share of dead men, had initiated and been on the receiving end of extreme violence.
The effect of shelling by heavy guns is devastating, whoever is on the receiving end, and in this, one of the rare cases of 1914, the receivers were Germans.
When Steve had asked why, she had said: 'You've had direct experience of these people, but it was as a slave-worker, on the receiving end.
Alfonso in particular, since he was very much on the receiving end of it once.
The transmission is slightly askew to anything I've dealt with before, and I can't intercept it anyway because I'm not on the receiving end.
For those of you who haven't been blessed with the experience, there's nothing surgical about being on the receiving end of a 750-pound general purpose bomb.
And believe me, you haven't seen temper until you've been on the receiving end of my father's rage.