drop the curtain

"The concern is that wherever you drop the curtain, so to speak, you'll kill the narrative structure, but this doesn't need to be the case with careful planning - arguably people getting up midway through a film causes more disruption," he says.

Elizabeth turns her head toward me, and I quickly drop the curtain.

Starving them of the oxygen of publicity is the best way to drop the curtain on this kind of political scam.

I drop the curtain, certain my intense staring drew her gaze, in a psychic kind of way.

He was about to drop the curtain when he saw her come into the circle of light.