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Khandro | 22:23 Wed 14th Oct 2020 | Phrases & Sayings
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In what sense do you use this, to open them or to close them?
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Draw to a close
To change them from the state they are in to the state they aren't...
I use draw whether it's open or close. If I say, 'Draw the curtains please.' it means , according to their current position, do something different with them.
To open them.
Both.
Doctor doctor I feel like a pair of curtains.
Go home and pull yourself together
(Sorry, I'm bored!)
Close. I say 'open' for opening them.
The OED concurs with Tony's link:
https://ibb.co/Tc5pPqc

However, in my childhood, my mother would always 'draw' the curtains at night and 'pull' them in the morning.
We would always draw the curtains at night and open the curtains in the morning.
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The question is brought about by an international linguistic argument (friendly). As a child my mother came into my bedroom & drew back the curtains, I have always used it that way; "Draw them open" & "close them".
It seems opinion is divided
both, though i do neither...
that should mean i keep them open, doh..
"Draw" means "pull". Whether opening or closing you have to pull curtains (you can't push them!)
Of course you can push curtains open. We have curtain poles and push the rings to open the curtains without touching the fabric.
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Draw -to come in, to close up; i.e. 'The nights are drawing in.'

Correctly you 'Draw' the curtains together to close them. You can't 'draw' something open.

We have Roman blinds .. Will it work with them?
It's a north-south thing. I bet those who (wrongly) say 'draw the curtains', also say Haitch for h.

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Same as Tiggs. Open the curtains, draw them closed.

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