ring up the curtain
Example Sentences
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The world is waiting to ring up the curtain for your star part in life.
From Supreme Personality by Croft, Delmer Eugene
"That's to ring up the curtain," said Mignon.
From Nine Little Goslings by Coolidge, Susan
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 Phillips, David Graham
In that hope I withdraw and ring up the curtain.
From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard
But even then we were accustomed to ring up the curtain, and so I look upon myself as a mere overture or prelude to the good thing, the word-painting, which will follow.
From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett)
