| 单词 | close the book on something |
| 释义 | close the book on something From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishclose the book on somethingclose the book on somethingSTOP DOING somethingto stop working on something, especially a police operation, because it is not making any progressDetectives had closed the book on the Hornsey Murders case three years previously. → closeExamples from the Corpusclose the book on something• The police have closed the book on the Hannah Davies case.• Rady made a motion to close the book on the matter.• And, by definitively closing the book on the past, the language of socialism also remains trapped in Stalinism's wreckage. |
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