ring down the curtain

verb2

1. •
   To end something.

   • And although he is impatient with the Beat pose, uniform, and rhetoric, he too disaffiliates himself and prepares to "ring down the curtain on the American dream." — 1964
2. •
   To mark the end of something.

   • The great natural routes in Yosemite have been done. The Wall of Early Morning Light merely rang down the curtain. —Jim McCarthy, 1971 — 2013