bring down the curtain
Finish the performance
To bring down the curtain is to end something, especially a performance, era, or significant undertaking.
The phrase comes from theater, where lowering the curtain signals the show is over.
The final game brought down the curtain on her twenty-year career.
Often paired with "on": bring down the curtain on an era of prosperity.
- final bowPerformer's closing acknowledgment
- take a bowAccept audience recognition
- swan songFinal work or performance
- finaleConcluding part of performance
- full stopTerminal punctuation mark
conclusion · end · last act · closing night · cessation · epilogue · final chapter · closure · end of an era · farewell · wrap-up · catharsis · denouement · valediction · bookend · proscenium · adieu · dramaturgy
bring down the curtainraise the curtain
Start a theatrical performance
opening act · premiere · opening night · debut · kick off
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