Timeline for "Make curtain" --Is this a well known usage of this expression?
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| Jul 13, 2020 at 23:02 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | It's very common for waiters at restaurants in the Broadway district to ask customers who walk in 60-90 minutes before showtimes whether they have theater tickets: Do you have a curtain to make? Soup? Coming right up. Rack of lamb? I don't think so. | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 21:52 | answer | added | Elliot | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 19:03 | answer | added | Xanne | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 18:49 | comment | added | Jim | @BrianDonovan - Granted this is reporting on 1992 levels (it was the first thing I found) but this says only 13% of the US adult population had reported seeing a live stage production. (~25m out of 185m adults). So, is that “common” or uncommon? | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 18:32 | comment | added | Brian Donovan | @Jim, I'd grant that only on condition that the category "theater people" include theater-goers. And once we add them to the professional and amateur thespians and crew, I think we shall find such persons plenty "common" (not in the derogatory classist sense). | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 18:29 | comment | added | Weather Vane | ... some of the search results turn up make curtain time. | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 18:19 | comment | added | Weather Vane |
"Make curtain" is to be found (provided you disallow drapery with -curtains) for example on Tripadvisor: I think worse case scenario would be I wouldn't make curtain and would have to stand in back until interval.
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| Jul 13, 2020 at 18:11 | history | edited | BillJ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 13, 2020 at 17:50 | comment | added | BoldBen | I've just googled "make curtain" and got no hits except for pages on physically fabrication curtains; however "make curtain-up" returned lots of hits. I'd never heard "make curtain" in this context but I have heard "make curtain-up". "Make curtain" mabe an in-group version of "make curtain-up" but it does not seem to be very common.. | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 17:37 | comment | added | Jim | Also note that the use of “make” is idiomatic for all. It’s the use of “curtain” as a metonym for showtime that’s theater jargon | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 17:34 | comment | added | Jim | It seems likely that it’s something “theater people” say and common folk don’t. | |
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| Jul 13, 2020 at 17:24 | history | asked | 1917goodmovie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |