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drop the mic

To do or say something decisive, meaningful, or impressive.

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  • From the practice of entertainers concluding performances by dropping the microphone onto the stage.
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In their past work, both Whedon and Goddard have shown an inclination to embrace tropes so tightly that you're forced to question them – and with Cabin, as one journalist in the room suggests, 'There's kind of a sense of this movie dropping the mic [on the genre] and walking away like, 'There it is guys. Ball's in your court.'

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Submitted on July 10, 2018

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