last hurrah
Final grand gesture
A last hurrah is a final effort, performance, or celebration before retirement or the end of something: The championship game was the coach's last hurrah before stepping down.
The phrase suggests going out with energy rather than fading away quietly.
It often carries a note of nostalgia or bittersweet finality.
Final work or performance
- curtain callPost-show audience acknowledgment
- grand finaleSpectacular concluding event
- final actConcluding portion of drama
- climaxPoint of greatest intensity
culmination · denouement · coda · capstone · crowning moment · final bow · final chapter · endgame
Departing salutation
- partingAct of leaving another
- adieuFormal leave-taking
- sendoffFarewell event or gesture
- leave-takingAct of saying goodbye
valediction · departure · closure · ending · final goodbye · bon voyage · sayonara · retirement
swan song
Final work or performance
- curtain callPost-show audience acknowledgment
- grand finaleSpectacular concluding event
- final actConcluding portion of drama
climax · culmination · denouement · coda · capstone · crowning moment · final bow · final chapter · endgame · closing number
goodbye
Departing salutation
leave-taking · valediction · departure · closure · ending · final goodbye · bon voyage · sayonara · retirement · sign-off
party
Gathering for celebration
shindig · revelry · blowout · sendoff · fete · fiesta · banquet · extravaganza · jubilee · jamboree
- swan songsswan song, final performance, farewell concert, farewell tour, final bow
- finalesfinale, grand finale, final curtain, curtain call, final bow
- endingsending, the end, finish, close, final
- farewellsgoodbye, farewell, bye, adieu, bye-bye
- firstsfirst, initial, beginning, start, opening
- send-offssend-off, farewell party, going away party, goodbye party, farewell ceremony
last hurrahdebut
First public appearance
first appearance · opening act · maiden voyage · first act · grand opening
last hurrahfading away
Gradual disappearance from perception
whimper · slipping away · petering out · anticlimax · fizzle
last, lasting, everlasting, lasts, lastly, hurrah, lasted, outlast, hurrahs