swan song | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Afinalperformanceoraccomplishment, especially one beforeretirement.1837,Thomas Carlyle, chapter VIII, inThe French Revolution: A History[…], volume I (The Bastille), London:Chapman and Hall,→OCLC, book II (The Paper Age):Yet, on the whole, our good Saint-Pierre is musical, poetical though most morbid: we will call his Book theswan-songof old dying France.1908February 19,Jack London,The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co.,→OCLC:In no other way can be explained our sacrifices and martyrdoms. For no other reason did Rudolph Mendenhall flame out his soul for the Cause and sing his wildswan-songthat last night of life.1916,Albert Bigelow Paine,The Boys' Life of Mark Twain‎[1]:"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"[…]—a pretentious volume which Mark Twain really considered his last. "It's myswan-song, my retirement from literature permanently," he wrote Howells, though certainly he was young, fifty-four, to have reached this conclusion.1918February (date written),Katherine Mansfield[pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, inBliss and Other Stories, London:Constable & Company, published1920,→OCLC,page114:Je ne parle pas français. That was herswan songfor me.2020November 9, Gwen Ihnat, “With McCartney III, Paul McCartney offers lessons from a legendary life”, inThe A.V. Club:[…]McCartney III could mark the end of his recording career. For a musician as continually prolific as McCartney (this is his 18th solo record), that seems unlikely. But if it is indeed aswan song, McCartney III will stand as a proper coda for the singer-songwriter we’ve been listening to for fifty-odd years: sentimental yet strong, a bit wistful, but as always, looking ahead.2021July 22, Philip Oltermann, “Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out in swan song presser”, inThe Guardian‎[2]:Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out inswan songpresser [title]2022October 22, Wendy Ide, quoting Steven Spielberg, “‘It’s a way to bring my mum and dad back’: Steven Spielberg on the new wave of cine-memoirs”, inThe Guardian‎[3]:[S]pielberg was keen to stress thatThe Fabelmansis not a full stop: “It is not because I decided to retire, and this is myswan song, don’t believe that.”

Examples:

EN: Yes, my swan song.
ES: Eso dicen.
EN: I hope so, it's mine swan song.
ES: Eso espero. Es mi canto del cisne.
EN: - Ten Little Indians? - Yes. It certainly was his swan song.
ES: Fue su canto del cisne.
EN: That was my swan song.
ES: Ese fue mi lago de los cisnes.
EN: Lohengrin, you know, swan song.
ES: Lohengrin, Wagner.
EN: This party tonight was planned as a final farewell gesture. A sort of swan song.
ES: Esta fiesta de hoy se había organizado como gesto de despedida.
EN: The swan song of one Brigadier Whitehead.
ES: El canto del cisne de un Brigadier con el pelo blanco.
EN: Soon the only sounds you will hear will be my feathered friends singing the swan song to the world.
ES: Pronto el único ruido que oirán será el de mis amigos emplumados cantándole al mundo su canción de despedida.
EN: I surely will die. - You sure picked yourself a swan song.
ES: Búsquese otra canción hijo.
EN: and that conspiracy had best sing its swan song!
ES: y esa conspiración no puede terminar de esa manera.
EN: Your swan song?
ES: ¿Tu canto de cisne?
EN: You know, this tournament is supposed to be my swan song, the end of an era.
ES: Se supone que este torneo es mi canto de cisne, el fin de una etapa.
EN: That was my swan song. Don't blame me.
ES: Larisa Dmítrevna, no me guarde rencor.
EN: "French frozen cod has sung its swan song."
ES: "La merluza congelada francesa está en sus últimos estertores.
EN: You thought it was my swan song?
ES: ¿Creíste que era mi canción de despedida?

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