the end of something, usually something that has lasted for a long time.

As the final curtain fell on the longest match in tennis history, Agassi emerged victorious.

• everything but the kitchen sink
• Everything in the garden is rosy.
• Everything's coming up roses.
• everything under the sun
• every time someone turns around
• every time someone turns round
• every time turn around
• every time turns around
• every time turns round
• every time you turn around
• every Tom, Dick, and Harry
• every trick in the book
• every which way
• ex cathedra
• except for one thing
• excuse me
• ex gratia
• explain away
• explain away something
• extoll the virtues of
• extoll the virtues of someone
• extoll the virtues of something
• extracurricular activity
• eyeball to eyeball
• eyeball-to-eyeball