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the universe's polite way of saying you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here
means The time at which a business, especially a bar or pub, stops serving and shuts its doors for the day.
from A plain English compound joining 'closing,' from the verb 'close' (via Old French 'clore' from Latin 'claudere,' to shut), with 'time,' from Old English 'tima.' The phrase rose with the regulated trading and licensing hours of commerce — when shops, and especially drinking establishments, were legally bound to lock up at an appointed hour, making the call of 'closing time!' a familiar last summons across the bar.
- sempervirens
- Semisonic's hit secretly celebrates a baby's birth
- last call
- UK pubs once enforced wartime closing laws until 2003
- sundown towns
- closing time once meant exclusion, not just last orders
- circadian cost
- late bar hours raise local crime and crash rates
tom waits song — 1985 album track, iconic bar-closing anthem
semisonic song — 1998 hit single, 'every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end'