go to Cain's

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English

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Etymology

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From the name of a company in New York City that rented out props and costumes.

Verb

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go to Cain's (third-person singular simple present goes to Cain's, present participle going to Cain's, simple past went to Cain's, past participle gone to Cain's)

  1. (US, theater, slang, dated) To close a show.
    • 1934, Stage, volume 11, numbers 7-12, page 7:
      [] Norma Terris (who, so far as we had known, was born in Show Boat and went to Cain's with it) []

References

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  • Bernard Sobel (1940) The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays, page 122
  • Jonathon Green (1984) Newspeak

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