Poll: 'Draw the curtains' means?

[dowie]

1. open the curtains

2. close the curtains

3. Both - either open or close the curtains depending on their current state


What say you GD?




(I've generally used it as meaning 2 though a friend uses it to mean 1 and she's adamant that 2 is wrong)

 

[Jokester]

It's 2 isn't it?

 

[Eurofighter]

2. close the curtains

 

[Scuzi]

4. Close your legs, love.

 

[kthula666]

Give them a pad of paper and pencil and say go.

2

 

[Jokester]

Google suggests drawing curtains just means moving them in either direction. Learn something new every day.

 

[gradyhawks]

Call me old fashioned but surely ...

Jesting aside, it comes from "The show is drawing to a close" and at the end you would "draw" the curtains to a close.

 

[ikillbears]

i would say its context heavy. if curtains closed - open them. if curtains open - close them

 

[james.miller]

3 - Both.


http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/draw_1?q=draw

 

[easyrider]

No way is it both

It's close since I appeared in this world.

 

[dacads]

How about stick to open and close?

 

[novaenough]

2 for me.

 

[FoxEye]

3 - Both.


http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/draw_1?q=draw

I went for both.

"Draw back the curtains" means to open them, doesn't it?

 

[StriderX]

Draw just means move...so..,.......

 

[Wizzfizz]

Close

 

[paradigm]

Anyone saying anything other than "both" is wrong.

 

[Rroff]

I went for both.

"Draw back the curtains" means to open them, doesn't it?

This - you can use draw in the context of both but it would be unusual to mean opening without the back.

 

[mushtafa]

I've always known it as close

 

[darael]

I've always known it as close

+1

Currently 80% of OcUK agree with us.

 

[lsg1r]

both for me.

Mind you I just say open or close lol