每日一词学英语(49): fag-end

虽然这段时间布朗丢了不少颜面，可首相的位子总算保住了，Is this good news or bad? (Economist.com, June 11, 2009)

For his party, it is probably bad. In the fag-end of its 12-year reign, Labour has lost even core supporters.

Fag-end指the last and worst part of anything; remnant，没用的剩余物(金山)。执政12年，工党在最后阶段狼狈不堪。