to finish with in a manner that requires no future revisiting, as in “Let’s do one final check of those assumptions and then put the financial model to bed”; evinces the unspoken desire to be done with a topic and move on to the next thing; can be uttered in complex contexts where work may drag on without a definite endpoint and decisiveness in the face of ambiguity is necessary; alas, in the real world when things are put to bed they often wake up the next morning lethargic and groggy