bring up the rear
To be last in a moving line of people, to walk or go behind others in a line.
As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.
rear
UK /ɹɪɹ/ US /ɹɪɹ/
verb 10adj 3noun 3adv 1
Definitions
verb
1
To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
He wants a father to protect his youth, and rear him up to virtue.
2
To breed and raise.
The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.
3
To rise up on the hind legs.
The horse was shocked, and thus reared.
4
To get angry.
5
To rise high above, tower above.
adj
1
Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost..
the rear rank of a company
sit in the rear seats of a car
adv
1
early; soon
Then why does Cuddy leave his cot so rear!
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