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while that`s about all the time we have to cap（pun for what？） off 2012`s last show, we will return on January 2nd after a long winter`s nap.?
the word “cap” here could be a similar sound for another word. because cap off is not in my dictionary and the context does have a "hat's" for "that's". so what could the "cap" represent?
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- ?Lv 74 years agoFavorite Answer
'Cap off' is actually the full verb, one of those darned English 'phrasal verbs'. But 'cap' and 'cap off' very often do mean the same thing, unlike other 'phrasal verbs', so no problem there. 'Cap off' means to 'close' (or to 'close out' -- another phrasal verb), to 'end', or to 'bring [some part] to a conclusion'. ... But the whole thing in this sentence is a fairly subtle prose re-phrasing -- including a rhyming pair of words : cap and nap -- of a very famous and well-known American Christmas-time poem: most Americans know it as ' 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/p... . Read the whole poem, preferably out loud to yourself since it is fun to read out loud, and you will hear where the rhyming pair occurs there. Unfortunate that your dictionary did not include 'cap off', but there are so many phrasal verbs in English, and dictionaries do differ. Hope that helps.
- ?Lv 74 years ago
The expression "cap off" or, often, "top off" means to finish, complete, close, or end.
