End
End verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.
Switch on
Switch on verb - Cause to operate by flipping a switch.
Both terms in one sentence
- Done at the end of the Bob Hope vehicle My Favorite Brunette, much to the disgust of the prison guard assigned to throw the switch on the electric chair.
Source: Last Minute Reprieve - At the end of My Favorite Brunette, Bob Hope's character is given a last-minute reprieve from execution; Crosby plays the very disappointed prison guard who was going to throw the switch on the electric chair.
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The episode "The End Of The World" features a space station that has a crucial switch on the other side of a rail-less walkway lined up with and directly underneath three giant rapidly spinning propellers.
Source: No OSHA Compliance
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