finale
close
closing curtain
finis | the concluding part of any performance |
| curtain raiser | any preliminary activity |
cave myotis
Myotis velifer | small bat of southwest United States that lives in caves etc. |
pallid bat
cave bat
Antrozous pallidus | drab yellowish big-eared bat that lives in caves |
curtain
drape
drapery
mantle pall | hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) |
| curtain ring | a circular ring for holding up a curtain |
| drapery | cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds |
drop curtain
drop cloth
drop | a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies, often used as background scenery |
| safety curtain | a fireproof theater curtain to be dropped in case of fire |
| shower curtain | a curtain that keeps water from splashing out of the shower area |
theater curtain
theatre curtain | a hanging cloth that conceals the stage from the view of the audience, rises or parts at the beginning and descends or closes between acts and at the end of a performance |
| iron curtain | an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy, used by Winston Churchill in to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries |
| bamboo curtain | an ideological barrier around communist China especially in the s and s |
| curtain lecture | a private lecture to a husband by his wife |
| curtain raiser | a short play presented before the main play |
bow
curtain call | an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience |
opening
opening night
curtain raising | the first performance (as of a theatrical production), the opening received good critical reviews |
cave in
subsidence | the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it |
| flitch side of bacon | salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork |
| bacon | back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked, usually sliced thin and fried |
| bacon strip | a slice of bacon |
| rind | the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating) |
| bacon rind | the rind of bacon |
| Canadian bacon | from a boned strip of cured loin |
bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich
BLT | sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce |
lemon peel
lemon rind | the rind of a lemon |
orange peel
orange rind | the rind of an orange |
| cheese rind | the rind of a cheese |
| bacon and eggs | eggs (fried or scrambled) served with bacon |
| Mammoth Cave National Park | a national park in Kentucky having a large cavern and an underground river |
| Wind Cave National Park | a national park in South Dakota featuring bison herds and limestone caverns |
| cave | a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea |
| curtain | any barrier to communication or vision, a curtain of secrecy, a curtain of trees |
| Fingal's Cave | a large cave with basaltic pillars on Staffa island in Scotland |
| stalactite | a cylinder of calcium carbonate hanging from the roof of a limestone cave |
caveman
cave man
cave dweller
troglodyte | someone who lives in a cave |
Bacon
Francis Bacon
Sir Francis Bacon
Baron Verulam
st Baron Verulam
Viscount St. Albans | English statesman and philosopher, precursor of British empiricism, advocated inductive reasoning (-) |
| Bacon Roger Bacon | English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation, first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (-) |
bird's foot trefoil bird's foot clover
babies' slippers
bacon and eggs
Lotus corniculatus | European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America |
cave
spelunk | explore natural caves |
cave
undermine | hollow out as if making a cave or opening, The river was caving the banks |
collapse
fall in
cave in
give d give way break b founder | break down, literally or metaphorically, The wall collapsed, The business collapsed, The dam broke, The roof collapsed, The wall gave in, The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice |
| curtain off | separate by means of a curtain |
| provide bring home the bacon | supply means of subsistence, earn a living, He provides for his large family by working three jobs, Women nowadays not only take care of the household but also bring home the bacon |
| curtain | provide with drapery, curtain the bedrooms |
succeed
win come through
bring home the bacon
deliver the goods | attain success or reach a desired goal, The enterprise succeeded, We succeeded in getting tickets to the show, she struggled to overcome her handicap and won |