close the sale

Idioms and Phrases

Also, close the deal ; close on a sale or deal . Complete a transaction, as in Jack was delighted to close the sale . This term applies to such transactions as the sale of a house, also put as closing on a house , as well as negotiations leading up to a sale. The latter was also put as to close a bargain , a phrase used by Charles Dickens and other 19th-century writers: “He closed the bargain directly it reached his ears,” Nicholas Nickleby , 1838.