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Top out

verb

Give up one's career just as one becomes very successful.

Provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure). Synonym: top.

To reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity. Synonym: peak. "Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million" Antonym: bottom out.

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"Top out" Quotes from Famous Books

... for perhaps three minutes. Then it died down, as if giving up the attempt to tear the boat's top out of the hands of the ...

— The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat • George A. Warren

... or it will settle unevenly, and the stack will lean to one side accordingly. 4. Increase the diameter from the ground upward until ready to draw in or narrow to form the top. 5. Aim to form the top by gradual rather than abrupt narrowing. 6. Top out by using some other kind of hay or grass that sheds the rain better than clover. 7. Suspend weights to some kind of ropes, stretching over the top of the stack to prevent the wind from removing the material put on to protect the clover ...

— Clovers and How to Grow Them • Thomas Shaw

... move, Irina Sergeyevna! [Takes a photograph] You look well to-day. [Takes a humming-top out of his pocket] Here's a humming-top, by the way. ...

— Plays by Chekhov, Second Series • Anton Chekhov

... tinged with gold. In the air was a touch of frost, and a smoky mist-drift clung here and there above the reeds, blurring the shores of the lagoon so that we seemed to be steaming across boundless water, till some clump of trees would fling its top out of the fog, then ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... advance, admirably carries out this idea by locally stimulating the cambium cells. Dr. Morris's scheme of using white wax, besides regulating sap pressure, allows the actinic rays of the sun to stimulate cellular activity. Cutting the top out of the tree, which disrupts the normal circulation and throws it into the few lower limbs, besides stimulating the cells into activity, has apparently in a large measure accounted for the slight success that I have had. Other methods such as injecting some substance under the ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting • Various