English of the Day: Right up till there's not

2025. 9. 3. 01:13ใ†In Canada/English

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What does “right up till there's not” mean?

๐Ÿ‘‰ ์ด ํ‘œํ˜„์€ ๋ฌธ๋งฅ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง€์ง€๋งŒ,
๐Ÿ‘‰ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ **“~๊ฐ€ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์—†์–ด์งˆ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€, ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๊นŒ์ง€”**๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ‘‰ “Right up till”์€ **‘~๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ง์ „๊นŒ์ง€’**๋ผ๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ์ด๊ณ ,
๐Ÿ‘‰ “there’s not”์€ **‘~๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค’**๋ผ๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฆ‰, ์–ด๋–ค ์ƒํƒœ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๊นŒ์ง€ ์ง€์†ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ์˜ˆ์š”.

 

 

 

The phrase "Right up till there's not" sounds like an incomplete thought or a casual, conversational way of saying:

 

 

Something continues to be true until it suddenly stops.

It’s often used in storytelling or dialogue for a dramatic or ironic effect.
Example:

  • "We’ve got plenty of time… right up till there’s not."
  • "Everything’s fine—right up till there’s not."

It implies a shift from stability to sudden change, usually unexpectedly.

If you’d like, I can give you 5 natural ways to use this in everyday speech or writing.

 

 

 

 

 

Example sentences:

  1. "He worked hard right up till there's not a single task left."
    (๊ทธ๋Š” ์ผ์ด ํ•˜๋‚˜๋„ ๋‚จ์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์ผํ–ˆ๋‹ค.)
  2. "She waited right up till there's not any hope left."
    (๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํฌ๋ง์ด ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ธ๋‹ค.)
  3. "We stood guard right up till there's not a threat remaining."
    (์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์œ„ํ˜‘์ด ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์„ฐ๋‹ค.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Expression breakdown:

PartMeaning
Right up till ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ง์ „๊นŒ์ง€, ๋๋‚  ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€
There's not ~๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค, ~๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋‹ค

 ์˜์—ญ: "๋๋‚  ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€", "์™„์ „ํžˆ ์—†์–ด์งˆ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Conversation example:

A: How long did you keep working?
B: Right up till there's not a single thing left to do.

A: ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์ผํ–ˆ์–ด?
B: ํ•  ์ผ์ด ํ•˜๋‚˜๋„ ๋‚จ์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ณ„์†ํ–ˆ์–ด.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Summary ์š”์•ฝ:

PhraseMeaning
Right up till there's not ~๊ฐ€ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์—†์–ด์งˆ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€, ๋๋‚  ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Related phrases:

  • Until the very end (๋๊นŒ์ง€)
  • Up to the last moment (๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๊นŒ์ง€)
  • Till there’s nothing left (์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋‚จ์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€)
  • To the bitter end (์ตœํ›„๊นŒ์ง€)
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