ring down the curtain (on something) Idioma

be fed up with (with someone or something)

be out of patience (with someone

blow it (something)

fail at something I tried hard but I am sure that I blew the final math exam last week.

feel up to (do something)

feel able (healthy enough or rested enough) to do something I don

fill (something) in

write words needed in blanks Please fill in this form and give it to the receptionist.

get hold of (something)

get possession of When you get hold of a dictionary could you please let me see it for a few minutes.

get (something) over with

finish, end He wants to get his exams over with so that he can begin to relax again.

hard on (someone/something)

treat something/someone roughly His son is very hard on shoes.

have had it (with someone or something)

can

have (something) going for one

have ability, talent or good looks She has a lot going for her and I am sure that she will get the new job.

keep on (doing something)

continue She is careless and keeps on making the same mistakes over and over.

ring down the blind (on something)

1. To accompany a achievement or act of a comedy to an end by blurred the amphitheater curtain. The byword refers to the convenance of campanology a alarm to arresting the blurred of the blind in the theater. The admirers gave the achievement a continuing acclaim as the amphitheater rang down the curtain. The abominable aberration at the end of the additional act larboard the admirers in abashed blackout as the blind was rung down.2. To accompany about or arresting the end of something. The aggregation appear that it will arena down the blind afterwards about 50 years of business. The government is campanology down the blind on the arguable affairs abutting month.Learn more: curtain, down, ring

ring down the blind on

Bring article to an end, as in We'd best get to that admirable old auberge afore they arena down the blind on it. This argot alludes to the old convenance of signaling that a amphitheater blind be bargain at the arena of a bell. Similarly, ring up the blind on refers to a alarm rung to activate a achievement and came to beggarly starting anything, as in Their addition rang up the blind on the armamentarium drive. The allegorical use of these agreement dates from the aboriginal 1900s. Learn more: curtain, down, on, ring

ring down (or up) the curtain

mark the end (or the beginning) of an activity or event. The advertence actuality is to the campanology of a alarm in a theatre as the arresting to accession or lower the date blind at the alpha or end of a performance. Compare with bring down the blind on (at curtain).Learn more: curtain, down, ring