The ultimate sign that a relationship is over is when the ring is given back in some manner. It's usually the woman returning it to the man as an inverse of the man offering it during the initial proposal, and despite the name can just as easily be an engagement ring instead of a wedding ring.

The symbolism of this trope is readily apparent to the point it's not necessary to verbally state a relationship has ended when it's used, making it a good example of ...

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Portuguese is the third most spoken language ofThe Americas, the second most spoken language in South America, behind Spanish, and fifth most spoken language in the world. This comes almost entirely fromBrazil,Portugal's former foothold in the Americas that has since well outgrown its former master (and the rest of the Lusophone world, which it vastly out-populates even with all of them combined) in many ways. Hence, most examples of this are Brazilian Portuguese, rather than the European Portuguese spoken in the motherland....

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