词汇 | to ride off into the sunset |
释义 | (redirected from to ride off into the sunset)ride off into the sunsetachieve a happy conclusion to something.In the closing scenes of westerns, the characters are often seen riding off into the sunset after everything has been resolved satisfactorily. ride off into the sunset, toA more or less happy ending or resolution. This cliché was originally a visual one—the classic final scene of the western films so popular from the 1930s on, in which the cowboy hero, having vanquished the evildoers, literally rides off into the sunset. It was transferred to other happy endings, usually with some irony, in the mid-twentieth century. “I didn’t even bother getting mad at your crack about me going off into the sunset,” wrote William Goldman (Magic, 1967). |
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