See close the book on on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "By analogy to closing an accounting journal.",
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"ref": "2011, David Gooblar, The Major Phases of Philip Roth, page 157:",
"text": "Roth's continued productivity ensures that we can't yet close the book on his career.",
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"ref": "2012, J.M Masson, The Oceanic Feeling:",
"text": "What greater pleasure for a child than to be able to close the book on all his terrors and go to sleep.",
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"ref": "2014, Chris Porter, Scapegoat - Scales of Justice Burning, page 37:",
"text": "I guess it would take a genius to figure that out and perhaps that is why Pilot Insurance Company and General Accident were so content to close the book on this subject.",
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"ref": "2007, Anne E. Russon, David R. Begun, The Evolution of Thought:",
"text": "We do not presume that our reconstruction will close the book on the evolutionary origins of great ape cognition.",
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"ref": "2009, Peter Doggett, There's a Riot Going On:",
"text": "Michael X's execution seemed to close the book on the revolution that rock stars and radicals alike had been awaiting for the previous decade.",
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"ref": "2011, Andrea Penrose, The Cocoa Conspiracy:",
"text": "The gathering, an unprecedented convocation of rulers, influential diplomats and their entourages, was meant to be a grand ending and a grand beginning—the movers and shakers were looking to close the book on the strife and upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars and begin a new chapter of world peace.",
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"etymology_text": "By analogy to closing an accounting journal.",
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