ring down the curtain

Meaning: (idiomatic)To end something.1876, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder,The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Volume 12, page360:Ring down the curtainon 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 glowing Mars through window-pane.1964, William Wasserstrom,Civil Liberties and the Arts: Selections from Twice a Year, 1938-48:And although he is impatient with the Beat pose, uniform, and rhetoric, he too disaffiliates himself and prepares to "ring down the curtainon the American dream."2000, Edward L. Shaughnessy,Down the Nights and Down the Days: Eugene O'Neill's Catholic Sensibility,→ISBN:Now Tyrone, in mixed charity and despair, tries toring down the curtainon the tragic farce of his son's life.2000, Edward R. Kantowicz,Coming Apart, Coming Together,→ISBN, page 3:A visibly frail Roosevelt played his usual role of mediator between the pugnacious Churchill and the scowling tyrant Stalin. All three leaders left Yalta believing they had obtained the assurances they needed for the postwar world. Churchill rebutted any and all suggestions that the Britishring down the curtainon their empire.; (idiomatic)Tomarkthe end of something.2006, Mark Twain, Paul Fatout,Mark Twain Speaking,→ISBN, page219:But tonight the Union veteran of Maryland clasps hands with the rebel veteran of Missouri, and the gap is closed. In this supreme moment the imperfect welding of the broken Union is perfected at last, and from this hour the seam of the joining shall no more be visible. The long tragedy is ended —ring down the curtain!2012 -, Nathanael West,The Dream Life of Balso Snell,→ISBN:Life is too difficult. O. Greenbaum, H. Knape, T. Kornflower, J. Davenport, all would agree that “Life is but the span from womb to tomb; a sigh, a smile; a chill, a fever; a throe of pain, a spasm of volupty: then a gasping for breath, and the comedy is over, the song is ended,ring down the curtain, the clown is dead.”2013, Steve Roper,Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber,→ISBN:The great natural routes in Yosemite have been done. The Wall of Early Morning Light merelyrang down the curtain. —Jim McCarthy, 1971

Examples:

EN: They ring down the curtain to find me over her crying like a baby.
ES: Bajaron la cortina y me encontraron llorando como un bebé.
EN: I'm sorry I had to ring down the curtain before the act was over, but the fact is, our heavy man, Mr. Schultz, was suddenly took sick.
ES: Siento haber tenido que bajar el telón... antes de que terminara el acto, pero el asunto es que... nuestro villano, el señor Schultz, de repente se ha sentido mal.
EN: Okay, Tommy, here's where we ring down the curtain.
ES: Bien, Tommy, aquí bajamos el telón.
EN: Oh, ring down the curtain.
ES: ¡Abajo el telón!
EN: - It's your show now. If it becomes too impossible, you ring down the curtain. Understand?
ES: Es tu espectáculo, si se te hace imposible bajas el telón.
EN: Well, kids it's time to ring down the curtain on this little production of ours.
ES: Bien, chicos ha llegado el momento de bajar el telón de nuestra pequeña obra.
EN: "So ring down the curtain "It's love for certain
ES: "Así que se acabó, ahora busco el amor".
EN: Time to ring down the curtain on this flawed universe.
ES: Hora de bajarle el telón a este universo defectuoso.

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