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)
- (colloquial, chiefly US) 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)
- Polish: zwijać interes impf, zwinąć interes pf
- 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)
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