单词 | closing |
释义 | closing (kloʊzɪŋ ) 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] The closing part of an activity or period of time is the final part of it. He entered RAF service in the closing stages of the war. They almost won the match in the closing minutes. In his closing statement, he said that he was very proud of his work. 2. See also close1 Idioms: closing the stable door after the horse has bolted [British] or closing the barn door after the horse has gone acting too late, because the problem that the action would have prevented has already occurred It is good to see the government taking positive action, even though it might look like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: closing round A closing round of 71 left him on 280, eight under par. Times, Sunday Times He voted to postpone the 2005 base closing round by two years. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Those two famous closing rounds were wholly different in kind. Times, Sunday Times |
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