без конца и без края

• БЕЗ КОНЦА И (БЕЗ) КРАЯ <-ю>; БЕЗ КОНЦА-КРАЮ{{}}

[PrepP; these forms only; fixed WO]

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1. [adv, nonagreeing modif, or quantit subj-compl with copula (subj: a noun denoting some expanse)]

⇒ (to be or seem to be) without an end:

- X тянулся{{}}без конца и без края - X stretched endlessly into the distance;

- X stretched boundlessly into the horizon;

- X went on without end into the distance.

2. чего без конца и без края [quantit subj-compl with copula (subj/ gen: usu. abstr or concr)]

⇒ (in some place there is) a great number or quantity of sth.:

- X-OB было{{}}без конца и без края ≈ there was no end of Xs;

- there were hordes (scads, droves etc) of Xs.