Go Out with a Bang

What it means

Finish in a way nobody will forget, rather than quietly fading out.

Where it comes from

T S Eliot supplied the phrase's shadow in The Hollow Men, which ends with the world finishing not with a bang but a whimper. The bang was already fireworks; he added the alternative.

The puzzle it came from

Go Out with a Bang was the answer to the Phrasicle of November 21, 2025. The clue read ____ ____ with a ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.

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