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Nika
what does "It's curtains." mean?
29 dic 2009 09:02
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It means the end. Example: It's curtains for you if your company has gone bankrupt.
30 dicembre 2009
1
If it 'is curtains for somebody', they are in a situation without hope or that you cannot escape from. (it is an idiom)
(= to be the death, end, or ruin of someone or something.)
Examples:
- If they can’t get into the export market, it’s curtains for the whole company.
- When I saw he had a gun, I thought it was curtains for me.
(It is from the lowering or closing of the curtains at the end of a stage performance, as Zaldy says.)
29 dicembre 2009
1
In that sense curtains refer to curtains in a stage show. So when it's curtains or curtain time, it usually means the end of the show.
29 dicembre 2009
An idiom.It means that you've reached(experience) a lot of trouble and difficulties.
29 dicembre 2009
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Inglese, Tedesco, Italiano, Persiano (farsi)
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