An iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
The untimely death of my wife has brought down the curtain on over 50 years of happily married life.
The curtain fell amid the wild applause of the audience.
To our amusement, the curtain began to rise ahead of time.
Your impetuous remarks about us seem to have rung down the curtain on our good relationship.
Both leaders should be brought together to bring down the curtain on generations of feuding between the two clans.
I waited for the curtain to rise with my heart beating in excitement.
The world seen through the lace curtain was dark.
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.
We always close curtains at night.
It was ten in the morning but the curtains were stillclosed
Could you draw the curtains? I'll open the curtains.