Torschlusspanik
TOR-shloos-pah-nik
n.The rising panic that time is closing and the important doors with it.
German — literally 'gate-shut panic'Established linguistic term
The Closing Doors
Ines bought the piano on a Wednesday, which was the first sign.
She had not played since she was fourteen. She was forty-one. She paid nine hundred euros for an upright with a cracked C sharp and had it carried up three flights by two men who were not pleased about it, and then she sat in front of it and did not touch it for eleven days.