The phrase "it's curtains for you" has its origins in a particularly nasty method of ritualized torture practiced by various Cargo Cults in the Papuan Gulf during the 1920's. The sacrificial victim, usually a young man, is repeatedly forced to choose between more or less identical swatches of drape material in an attempt to appease the local deity "Mate-Chidi-Qarp-et" whose name is repeated endlessly. There are unconfirmed reports that the cult has risen again in larger branches of John Lewis.