The meaning is clear, but I never heard “it’s curtains” irl. It seems it was popular in gangster movies mid 20th century and apparently (still?) well understood in the eighties, but are people in the US still saying that?
I haven’t heard it in awhile but looks like Collins has pulled some examples from the early 2000s to late 2010s. For some reason they only have quotes from the Times and Sun though.
The meaning is clear, but I never heard “it’s curtains” irl. It seems it was popular in gangster movies mid 20th century and apparently (still?) well understood in the eighties, but are people in the US still saying that?
Even in the 80s it would have been a humorously dated reference to gangster movies. And you’d use it with a hammed-up accent, saying it like “coitans”
I haven’t heard it in awhile but looks like Collins has pulled some examples from the early 2000s to late 2010s. For some reason they only have quotes from the Times and Sun though.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/its-curtains
Haven’t heard that expression in a while, myself.