Meaning of ring up the curtain | Babel Free

Definitions

to start something

idiomatic

Examples

“I caught her in my arms; she kissed me, pushed me gently away, and added: “Ring⟳ up the curtain, uncle. Little Moccasin is ready"”

“She remembered perfectly the first sign⟳ he had given of it — it had been like⟳ the bell that was to ring⟳ up the curtain upon the real drama of their life.”

“After Congress had waited as long as it was willing to wait⟳ for Durant to ring⟳ up the curtain, it was lucky when all seemed lost to get⟳ the blessing, the services, and a great deal⟳ of the personal capital of one of the most wrongly judged men in the history of American railroad leadership: Oakes Ames.”

“He was one of those who hold⟳ that revolutions are not made with rose-water; and with strange prescience he looked to the Russian peasant's hatred of his oppressors to ring⟳ up the curtain on a world-drama that should mean⟳ the destruction of civilisation.”

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