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Swan song   /swɑn sɔŋ/   Listen
Swan song

noun
1.
A final performance or effort (especially before retirement).  Synonym: last hurrah.





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"Swan song" Quotes from Famous Books



... her old song, the swan song of his hopes. He felt a loneliness more bitter than he had ever before conceived of. In the jarring tumult of a growing city he saw himself marked in his own eyes, aloof in the street and the market place, a stranger by his own fireside. In his fear he swore ...
— The Emigrant Trail • Geraldine Bonner


Words linked to "Swan song" :   performance


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