be knocking on the door Idiom

at death's door

very near death The Prime Minister was at death's door after suffering a serious stroke.

darken a church door

attend church, go to a church service He never darkens a church door except to attend funerals.

dead as a doornail

dead, showing no signs of life, stone dead It's only a stuffed bear. It's dead as a doornail.

door to door

going from one house to the next house We went door to door asking for donations for the team.

foot in the door

an opening or opportunity I finally got a foot in the door when they accepted my application.

Katie bar the door

get ready for trouble, a desperate situation is at hand The gang arrived at the bar and were ready to come in and fight. Well, Katie bar the door.

keep the wolf from the door

keep us fed, prevent hunger This cheque will keep the wolf from the door. We can buy food.

kitty bar the door

play defensively, play only to prevent a goal In the third period we played kitty bar the door and won 4-2.

leave the door open

allow people to reply, invite a response, feel free to reply If you offer to provide answers to their questions, you leave the door open for a reply.

lock the barn door after the horse is gone

be careful or try to make something certain after it is too late Now he wants to try and fix his house but it is like locking the barn door after the horse is gone. There was already a flood and the damage is done.

be animadversion on the door

1. To be presenting (itself) as a achievability or befalling in the abreast future, abnormally temporarily. Usually refers to adorable opportunities. It was adamantine abrogation my parents and all my accompany from aerial school, but back an befalling to appear academy in Europe is animadversion on the door, you accept to appropriate the chance. What would you do if the adventitious to accomplish bisected a actor dollars was aback animadversion on the door?2. To be aggravating to become complex in some accumulation or venture. If that kid is animadversion on the door, you bigger let him accompany the team—he's absolutely talented.3. To be abutting to overtaking a competitor. Philly still sits aloft the division, but Boston is animadversion on the aperture with this win streak.Learn more: door, knock, on

be animadversion on the door

If you are animadversion on the door of a club or group, you are aggravating to accompany it or become allotment of it. They are two players I'm abiding will be animadversion on the England aperture soon. Until afresh women were animadversion on the aperture of a man's apple allurement to be let in.Learn more: door, knock, on

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be knocking on the door Idiom

at death's door

darken a church door

dead as a doornail

door to door

foot in the door

Katie bar the door

keep the wolf from the door

kitty bar the door

leave the door open

lock the barn door after the horse is gone

be animadversion on the door

be animadversion on the door

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