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curtains

curtains

English

Noun

curtains

plural of curtain
(figuratively, in reference to curtains closing at the end of a stage show) An end, death

It's curtains for you!

"What if a bunch of scuba divers nosed about here?" / "Curtains for them, when our side-scan sonar sees them."

Translations

plural of curtain

Finnish: verhot pl
French: rideaux (fr) m
German: Vorhänge (de) m pl

Russian: што́ры (ru) f pl ‎(štóry), занаве́ски (ru) f pl ‎(zanavéski)
Spanish: cortinas f pl

end, death (colloquial)

Chinese:
Mandarin: 完蛋 (zh) ‎(wándàn), 糟糕 (zh) ‎(zāogāo)
French: fichu (fr)
Japanese: 一巻の終わり ‎(いっかんのおわり, ikkan no owari)

Russian: кранты́ (ru) m pl ‎(krantý), хана́ (ru) f ‎(xaná), каю́к (ru) m ‎(kajúk), кирды́к (ru) m ‎(kirdýk), капу́т (ru) m ‎(kapút), кры́шка (ru) f ‎(krýška), пизде́ц (ru) m ‎(pizdéc) (vulgar)

Verb

curtains

third-person singular simple present indicative form of curtain