closing time
Noun
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Noun
closing time
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see closing, time
- (UK, Canada) The time when a public house or restaurant closes. Used to invite final drink orders.
- 1992, Leonard Cohen, "Closing Time" from the album The Future,
- all the women tear their blouses off / and the men they dance on the polka-dots / and it's partner found, it's partner lost / and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops: / it's closing time
- 1992, Leonard Cohen, "Closing Time" from the album The Future,
- (UK, figuratively) Used to suggest that a deadline for action is imminent.
- 1995, GoldenEye
- No. You're supposed to die for me. By the way, I did think of asking you to join my little scheme, but somehow I knew that 007's loyalty was always to the mission — never to his friend. Closing time, James. Last call.
- 1995, GoldenEye
- German: Ladenschluss of a store, Sperrstunde of a bar
- Russian: вре́мя закрытие
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