close up shop

English

Verb

close up shop (third-person singular simple present closes up shop, present participle closing up shop, simple past and past participle closed up shop)

1. (colloquial) To stop what one is doing, especially in the context of a business.

   Schwartz’s Yiddish Art Theater closed up shop in the early 1950s, but show business carries on: the site is now a multiplex. [1]

   Synonyms: (UK) shut up shop, put up the shutters

   Antonym: set up shop

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 收檔／收档 (sau¹ dong³)

• Finnish: lakkauttaa (fi), lopettaa (fi)
• French: mettre la clé sous la porte (fr) (literally “put the key under the door”), fermer boutique (fr), baisser le rideau (literally “lower the curtain”)
• Italian: chiudere i battenti (literally “close the shutters”)
• Japanese: 廃業する (ja) (はいぎょうする, haigyō suru)
• Portuguese: fechar as portas (literally “close the doors”), fechar (pt), falir (pt), quebrar (pt) (colloquial)
• Swedish: ta ner skylten (sv), slå igen (sv), lägga ner (sv)