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Swan song

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A final performance or accomplishment, especially one before retirement. idiomatic

    "Yet, on the whole, our good Saint-Pierre is musical, poetical though most morbid: we will call his Book the swan-song of old dying France."

  2. 2
    a final performance or effort (especially before retirement) wordnet

Etymology

Calque of German Schwanenlied(from Schwan + Lied) or Schwanengesang; from the belief that the mute swan sings before dying.

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