はては

はては【果ては】

●ゴキブリを見てきゃーと叫んだだけだったのに, 近所から人が寄ってきて, 果てはお巡りさんまで来る始末. All I did was give a screech when I saw a cockroach, but the next thing I knew the neighbors came running, and before it was all over the police showed up too!

・家中探しても見つからず, 果ては掃除機の中のゴミまで出して探したが無駄だった. I searched all over the house, and even wound up going through the contents of my vacuum cleaner, but it was all useless.

・その国では政府の高官から果ては路地で遊んでいる子供まで, みんな同じバッジをつけていた. In that country, from the highest government officials right down to the kids playing in the alleys, everyone wore the same badge.