Last Hurrah

The or A "Last Hurrah", used as a Noun, means a final appearance or effort, especially at the end of a career.

There is also a critically acclaimed movie with this title, The Last Hurrah, based upon a novel by American writer Edwin O'Connor.

The earliest written citation of the noun phrase in Google Books was by British writer John Shipp (1784-1834). The name of the work was "Paddy and the French Cavalry", retelling an incident allegedly occuring at the Battle of Waterloo in a very short account in The Military Bijou or the Contents of a Soldier's Knapsack Being the Gleanings of Thirty-Three Years Active Service from 1831 (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co.), p. 186.

"This was poor Paddy's last hurrah; for scarce had the words died upon his lips, when a cannon shot poor warm-hearted Pat of that which a man looks very queer without—his head."