Usually means: Close business temporarily or permanently.
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  1. put up the shutters: Collins English Dictionary
  2. put up the shutters: Wiktionary
  3. Put up the Shutters: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Definitions from Wiktionary (put up the shutters)

verb:  (cricket) To bat defensively in the last innings of a match in order to force a draw when winning is not possible.
verb:  (of a business, figuratively) To close, either at the end of the day or permanently.

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