ring down the curtain
To end something.
Ring down the curtain on To-day And give the Past the right of way, Till fields of battle red with rust, Shine through the ashes and the dust Across the Age, and burn as plain As g
curtain
UK /ˈkɜːtn̩/ US /ˈkɜɹt(ə)n/
noun 5verb 2
Collocations
7(noun.) fabric that covers a window
VERB + CURTAIN
close, draw, open, pull (across/aside/back/closed)
She closed the curtains before turning on the movie so the room would be completely dark.
CURTAIN + VERB
hang
The bedroom curtains hung unevenly because one of the rods had come loose.
billow
The bedroom curtains billowed gently when she opened the window this morning.
PREP
behind a/the ~
The cat likes to hide behind the curtains when visitors arrive at our house.
(noun.) in a theatre
ADJ
final
CURTAIN + VERB
go up, open, part, rise
close, come down, fall
The heavy curtains fell slowly as the movie theater prepared for the evening show.
Definitions
noun
1
A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
He drew the curtains at 11:00pm before falling asleep.
Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
2
A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what[…]will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday[…]that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth.[…]”
3
The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.
4
The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
Captain Rense, beleagring the Citie of Errona for us, […] caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles […].
5
Death, final curtain.
For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.
verb
1
To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
The window, softly curtained with dotted swiss, became the focus of my desperate hour-by-hour attention.
2
To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.
And, after conflict such as was supposed / The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd, / When with a happy storm they were surprised / And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave, / We may, each wreathed in the other's arms, / Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber;
But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty; whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
the curtain falls
The end of something has come.
But she's not gone yet and I've made arrangements for one more pig-sticking party up country before the Monkeys come in and the curtain falls for good.
bring down the curtain
To bring something to an end.
At the other end of the day, Crewe Carriage Sidings is the destination of rolling stock from all routes, which bring terminating workings into the station before going to the depot
pull back the curtain
To reveal an underlying truth.
Understanding how we can be manipulated helps us pull back the curtain on charlatans and can even protect democracy.
Example Bank
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He drew the curtains at 11:00pm before falling asleep.
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Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A
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It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible "sections", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both s
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In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons,
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The window, softly curtained with dotted swiss, became the focus of my desperate hour-by-hour attention.
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And, after conflict such as was supposed / The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd, / When with a happy storm they were surprised / And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave, / We may, each wreathe
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