close the book on

By analogy to closing an accounting journal.

• "Roth's continued productivity ensures that we can't yet close the book on his career."
• "What greater pleasure for a child than to be able to close the book on all his terrors and go to sleep."
• "I guess it would take a genius to figure that out and perhaps that is why Pilot Insurance Company and General Accident were so content to close the book on this subject."
• "We do not presume that our reconstruction will close the book on the evolutionary origins of great ape cognition."
• "Michael X's execution seemed to close the book on the revolution that rock stars and radicals alike had been awaiting for the previous decade."
• "The gathering, an unprecedented convocation of rulers, influential diplomats and their entourages, was meant to be a grand ending and a grand beginning—the movers and shakers were looking to close the book on the strife and upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars and begin a new chapter of world peace."