close up shop

English

Verb

close up shop

(colloquial) 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.

Synonyms

shut up shop (UK)

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