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lift the curtain
Idioms and Phrases
see raise the curtain .Example Sentences
It's an opportunity, says Bourgeois, to break out of the confines of time-limited TikTok and lift the curtain on trainspotting, as well as his love for the railway, its heritage and its future.
In 1972, the people, fed up with legislative chicanery, organized and passed an initiative to lift the curtain surrounding what their representatives were doing in secret.
The aviation industry is hoping that the easing of travel restrictions will lift the curtain on a busy summer, after two years of major disruption due to the pandemic.
They’ll find it in a report that she said will “lift the curtain” on how people interact with one another and with nature.
“I’ll be taking flowers to the cemetery of my heart,” Adele sings at the beginning of “30” — a beguilingly theatrical way to lift the curtain on an album about what happens to a real life — to three real lives — when the romance at the center of a family dies.
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