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The phrase suggests that one has reached or exceeded ones defined boundaries.
This evolved from the phrase "at the end of tether". Such as a horse might be tied or tethered.
A horse would be tethered and able to eat the resources within the radius of his rope, when that resource was gone he then had to stretch to reach the grass, being at the end of his rope.
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