ring up the curtain
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But not to detain you longer on the threshold, I will ring up the curtain, and travel with you in this varied journey.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 35, November 26, 1870 by Various
"It will cost about twenty thousand cold, before we ring up the curtain," explained Weldon, skillfully calculating with the aid of a pencil and a pad of paper.
From A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life by Elsie Janis
The world is waiting to ring up the curtain for your star part in life.
From Supreme Personality by Delmer Eugene Croft
Truly, the gods must have created us for their amusement; and when Olympus palls, they ring up the curtain on some such screaming comedy as was that.
From The Deluge by David Graham Phillips
"That's to ring up the curtain," said Mignon.
From Nine Little Goslings by Susan Coolidge
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