Meaning of close the book on | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To stop worrying about or trying to do something about; to ignore.
   idiomatic
2. To finish; to bring to an end.
   idiomatic

Examples

“Roth's continued productivity ensures that we can't yet close the book on his career.”

“What greater pleasure for a child than to be able to close the book on all his terrors and go to sleep.”

“I guess it would take a genius to figure that out and perhaps that is why Pilot Insurance Company and General Accident were so content to close the book on this subject.”

“We do not presume that our reconstruction will close the book on the evolutionary origins of great ape cognition.”

“Michael X's execution seemed to close the book on the revolution that rock stars and radicals alike had been awaiting for the previous decade.”

“The gathering, an unprecedented convocation of rulers, influential diplomats and their entourages, was meant to be a grand ending and a grand beginning—the movers and shakers were looking to close the book on the strife and upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars and begin a new chapter of world peace.”

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