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It's time to be serious; carefree times have ended. For example, Now that he's been promoted the party's over; he has to write a report every week . This expression uses party in the sense of “a pleasant social gathering.” [c. 1930]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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