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Meanings of shut up shop in English

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Usage of shut up shop in English
1
Road Records is getting ready to shut up shop after 11 years.
The Irish Times
2
Matt Vinyl has decided the time has come to shut up shop.
The Irish Times
3
At the first whiff of trouble the investment banks shut up shop.
Reuters
4
Swindon has been here before when the rail industry shut up shop.
The Guardian
5
And with that it's time to shut up shop for the evening.
The Guardian
6
We're just about to shut up shop and go to a funeral.
In a gilded cage
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How about we go for a drink after we shut up shop?
The Rhesus Chart
8
A number of high profile businesses have shut up shop in Nelson's cbd.
Radio NZ
9
Once scammers receive some money they shut up shop before they're tracked down.
Radio NZ
10
Above all, for her own self-respect, she won't shut up shop.
The sealed letter
11
In plain terms, do they shut up shop, draw the game, bank the fires-
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
12
I shut up shop pretty quick and went to sea.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
13
No, I don't, d-n them; I'd shut up shop sooner.
A Man of Samples. Something about the men he met "On the Road"
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I've got one more line of goods to offer before I shut up shop.
Options
15
Both doctors would have to shut up shop at some point, Dr Jennings warned.
Radio NZ
16
If it hadn't we might as well have shut up shop and gone home.
The Irish Times
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