Meanings
- figurativelyA magical place where one goes to find fulfillment of one's dreams.
“There's no end to the rainbow. There's just the rainbow,” he says. “We don't see anything slowing down.
2026 April 18, John Thornhill, quoting Dario Amodei, “Lunch with the FT: Dario Amodei”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33 more examples
Yet for the vast majority of those who acted on their urges to be in pictures, Hollywood was not the end of the rainbow but the end of the road.
2000, Clayton R. Koppes, Gregory D. Black, Hollywood Goes to War, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, page 7Money does not buy happiness. It just can buy the nice things that make life easier and a lot more enjoyable, but it can’t get you true happiness --- believe that! It’s not the end of the rainbow many think it to be.
2009, Louis F. Vargas, The Passion Driven Life, Wordclay, page 52Magnesium chloride is the end of the rainbow in terms of cardiac care; the only thing in doubt is how many years more will pass before the field of cardiology fully understands magnesium medicine.
2011, Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, iUniverse, page 121
Origin
A reference to the myth that a pot of gold can be found at the end of a rainbow.
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