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close up shop

verb

Definitions

  1. 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. http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/travel/escapes/26yiddish.html?8dpc

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for close up shop. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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