closing time
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]closing time (countable and uncountable, plural closing times)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see closing, time.
- (UK, Canada) The time when a public house or restaurant closes. Used to invite final drink orders.
- 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
- Sometimes when you sit in a restaurant, still stuffing yourself half an hour after closing time, you feel that the tired waiter at your side must surely be despising you.
- 1992, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “Closing Time”, in 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
- (UK, figuratively) Used to suggest that a deadline for action is imminent.
- 1995, Jeffrey Caine, Bruce Feirstein, GoldenEye, spoken by Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean):
- 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.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]time when a pub closes
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