end of the line

“The man on the other end of the line said, ‘This is the Nationwide calling.

“This community was the end of the line for a long time,” said Sam Schultz, 69, who lives east of town at the Desert View Tower with eight dogs and at least 12 cats.

He wanted the person on the end of the line to prove who they were.

They're not going to be promoted, because sheriffs are the end of the line in county government.

So the fraud was largely invisible to Ozy employees, at least until September 2021, when a New York Times column exposed the first whiff of something hinky: a strange voice on the other end of the line during a Goldman Sachs call.