筆ふでを折おる

expression, godan verb (-ru)

break off writing; give up writing; lay down one's pen

Idiomatic expression meaning to stop writing, often permanently or as a career decision. Literally 'to break one's brush/pen'.

• 彼かれは小しょう説せつ家かとして筆ふでを折おる決けっ心しんをした。

  He decided to give up writing as a novelist.

• あの事じ件けんをきっかけに、彼かの女じょは筆ふでを折おってしまった。

  After that incident, she broke off writing for good.