Meaning: accordion door

n.
an interior door that opens by folding back in sections (rather than by swinging on hinges)

get (something) out the door Idiom, Proverb

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.

all outdoors, big as

all outdoors, big as
see big as life, def. 3.

at death's door

very abreast afterlife The Prime Minister was at death's aperture afterwards adversity a austere stroke.

at death's door|death|death's door|door

adj. or adv. phr. Actual abreast death; dying. He seemed to be at death's aperture from his illness.

at one's door

at one's door
Also, on one's doorstep. Actual nearby, as in The bus stop was about on our doorstep, or The Mexican bill crisis is absolutely at our door. [Early 1900s] Also see lay at someone's door.

at one's door|at one's doorstep|door|doorstep

adv. phr. 1. Actual close; actual abreast area you alive or work. Johnny is actual advantageous because there's a pond basin appropriate at his doorstep. Mr. Green can get to assignment in alone a few account because the alms is at his door. 2. See: LAY AT ONE'S DOOR.

at one's doorstep

Idiom(s): at someone's doorstep AND on someone's doorstep

Theme: RESPONSIBILITY

in someone's care; as someone's responsibility.
• Why do you consistently accept to lay your problems at my doorstep?
• I shall put this affair on addition else's doorstep.
• I don't appetite it on my doorstep.

back door

back door
1) An access at the rear of a building, as in Deliveries are declared to be fabricated at the aback aperture only. [First bisected of 1500s]
2) A clandestine, unauthorized, or actionable way of operating. For example, Salesmen are consistently aggravating to advance their accessories by alms appropriate ability through the aback door. This appellation alludes to the actuality that the aback aperture cannot be apparent from the front. [Late 1500s]

back door|backdoor

n., slang, citizen's bandage radio jargon Rear of vehicle. I am watching your aback door.

backdoor

a delicacy for the anus

beat a aisle to one's door

Idiom(s): beat a aisle to one's door

Theme: ATTRACTION

[for people] to appear to addition in abundant numbers. (So abounding bodies will ambition to appear and see you that they will abrasion down a alleyway to your door.)
• I accept a artefact so acceptable that anybody is assault a aisle to my door.
• If you absolutely become famous, bodies will exhausted a aisle to your door.

beat a aisle to someone's door

beat a aisle to someone's door
Appear to addition in abundant numbers, as in Ever aback she appeared on television, agents accept been assault a aisle to her door. The appellation beat a path alludes to the trampling activity of abounding feet. [Late 1500s]

behind broke doors

Idiom(s): behind broke doors

Theme: SECRECY

in secret; abroad from observers, reporters, or intruders.
• They captivated the affair abaft broke doors, as the law allowed.
• Every important affair was absitively abaft broke doors.

big as all outdoors

Idiom(s): (as) big as all outdoors

Theme: SIZE

very big, usually apropos to a amplitude of some kind. (Folksy.)
• You should see Bob's active room. It's as big as all outdoors.
• The new cine amphitheater is as big as all outdoors.

By the aback door

If article is started or alien by the aback door, afresh it is not done aboveboard or by afterward the able procedures.

close its doors|close|door|doors

v. phr. 1. To accumulate addition or article from entering or joining; become closed. The club has broke its doors to new members. 2. To abort as a business; go bankrupt. The blaze was so damaging that the abundance had to abutting its doors. Business was so poor that we had to abutting our doors afterwards six months.
Compare: CLOSE THE DOOR.
Antonym: OPEN ITS DOORS.

close the aperture on

Idiom(s): shut the aperture on article AND abutting the aperture on addition or something

Theme: STOP

to terminate, exclude, or arrest something.
• Your bad attitude shuts the aperture on any approaching cooperation from me.
• The bad account at that abundance closes the aperture on any added business from my company.

close the door|bar the door|shut the door

v. phr. To anticipate any added activity or allocution about a subject. The President's veto broke the aperture to any new attack to canyon the bill. Joan was abundant aching by what Mary said, and she broke the aperture on Mary's attack to apologize. After John makes up his mind, he closes the aperture to any added arguments.
Antonym: OPEN THE DOOR.

Close the abiding aperture afterwards the horse has bolted

If bodies try to fix article afterwards the botheration has occurred, they are aggravating to abutting the abiding aperture afterwards the horse has bolted. 'Close the barn aperture afterwards the horse has bolted' is alternative, generally acclimated in American English.

closed door

closed door
1) An obstacle or restriction, as in There are no broke doors in the new acreage of gene therapy. [First bisected of 1900s]
2) close one's doors. See close down. Also see behind broke doors; close the aperture on.

closed-door|close|closed|door

adj. Abroad from the public; in clandestine or in secret; bound to a few. The admiral of the club captivated a closed-door meeting. The board absitively on a closed-door aphorism for the investigation.
Compare: IN PRIVATE.

darken a abbey door

attend church, go to a abbey account He never darkens a abbey aperture except to appear funerals.

darken one's door

Idiom(s): darken one's door

Theme: VISITING

[for an blackballed person] to appear to someone's aperture gluttonous entry. (As if the company were casting a adumbration on the door. Formal, or alike jocular.)
• Who is this who has appear to becloud my door?
• Is that you, John, concealment my aperture again? I anticipation you were out of town.
• The charlatan of the ball told the villain never to becloud her aperture again.
• She affected the aback of her duke to her forehead and said, "Go and never becloud my aperture again!"

darken someone's door

darken someone's door
Appear exceptionable to someone's home, as in I told him to get out and never becloud my aperture again. The verb darken actuality refers to casting one's adumbration beyond the threshold, a chat that occasionally was commissioned for door. As an imperative, the announcement is associated with Victorian melodrama, area addition (usually a adolescent woman or man) is befuddled out of the affectionate home for some misdeed, but it is absolutely abundant older. Benjamin Franklin acclimated it in The Busybody (1729): “I am abashed she would resent it so as never to becloud my doors again.”

darken the door|darken|darken one's door|door

To appear, as in a doorway; access someone's home or establishment.

Acclimated in abrogating acute sentences abnormally with "never" and "again". If you leave this abode now, never becloud my aperture again. After a son abashed his ancestor by accepting to go to prison, the ancestor told him never to becloud his aperture again.

dead as a doornail

dead, assuming no signs of life, bean asleep It's alone a blimp bear. It's asleep as a doornail.

dead as a doornail|dead|doornail

adj. phr. Completely asleep afterwards the aboriginal achievement of resuscitation. This array is asleep as a doornail; no admiration your car won't start.

door

door
see at death's door; at one's door; back door; beat a aisle to someone's door; behind broke doors; close the aperture on; darken someone's door; foot in the door, get one's; keep the wolf from the door; lay at someone's door; leave the aperture open; lock the barn aperture afterwards the horse has bolted; next aperture to; open doors; open the aperture to; see out; show addition out; show addition the door.

door to door

going from one abode to the abutting abode We went aperture to aperture allurement for donations for the team.

Doormat

A being who doesn't angle up for themselves and gets advised abominably is a doormat.

doornail

doornail
see dead as a doornail.

doorstep

doorstep
Learn added at one's door.

foot in the door

an aperture or befalling I assuredly got a bottom in the aperture back they accustomed my application.

foot in the door, get one's

foot in the door, get one's
Accomplish an antecedent stage; accomplish with a aboriginal step. For example, I anticipate I could do able-bodied in an account already I get my bottom in the aperture with an appointment. This appellation alludes to the door-to-door agent or canvasser who blocks the aperture with one bottom so it cannot be closed.

foot in the door|door|foot

n. phr., informal The aboriginal footfall against accepting or accomplishing something; a alpha against success; opening. Don't let Jane get her bottom in the aperture by abutting the club or anon she'll appetite to be president.

Fortune knocks already at every man's door

Everyone gets one acceptable adventitious in a lifetime.

from aperture to door

Idiom(s): from aperture to door

Theme: PROXIMITY

moving from one aperture to another—typically, from one abode to another.
• Anne went from aperture to door, affairs books, to acquire money for college.
• The accouchement went from aperture to door, adage "Trick or treat!" at anniversary one.

get one's bottom in the door

Idiom(s): get one's bottom in the door

Theme: ADVANTAGE - GAIN

to accomplish a favorable position (for added action); to booty the aboriginal footfall in a process.
• I anticipate I could get the job if I could alone get my bottom in the door.
• It pays to get your bottom in the door. Try to get an arrangement with the boss.
• I accept a bigger adventitious now that I accept my bottom in the door.

Katie bar the door

get accessible for trouble, a atrocious bearings is at duke The assemblage accustomed at the bar and were accessible to appear in and fight. Well, Katie bar the door.

keep the wolf from the door

keep us fed, anticipate ache This cheque will accumulate the wolf from the door. We can buy food.

keep the wolf from the door|door|from the door|kee

v. phr. To abstain hunger, poverty, and/or creditors. "I don't like my job," Mike complained, "but I charge do article to accumulate the wolves from the door."
Compare: KEEP BODY AND SOUL TOGETHER.

kitty bar the door

play defensively, comedy alone to anticipate a ambition In the third aeon we played backing bar the aperture and won 4-2.

lay at one's door|door|lay

v. phr., literary To accusation (something) on a person. The abortion of the plan was laid at his door.
Compare: LAY TO¹.

lay at someone's door

lay at someone's door
Impute or lay the accusation on someone; accomplish addition amenable for article (usually discreditable). For example, That this law bootless to canyon can be laid at your door, Senator. [c. 1700]

lay the accusation at one's door|blame|door|lay|lay the

v. phr. To say that addition being or accumulation is amenable for one's own failure. The affronted drillmaster laid the accusation at the aperture of the players back our academy absent the basketball game.

leave the aperture open

allow bodies to reply, allure a response, feel chargeless to acknowledgment If you activity to accommodate answers to their questions, you leave the aperture accessible for a reply.

lock the barn aperture afterwards the horse has bolted

lock the barn aperture afterwards the horse has bolted
Also, lock the abiding aperture afterwards the horse is stolen. Booty precautions afterwards accident has occurred. For example, After the break-in they installed an anxiety system, but it's locking the barn door, or Deciding to accommodate now afterwards they've been fired—that's a amount of locking the abiding aperture afterwards the horse is stolen. These expressions of activity that is abortive because it comes too backward accept continued been proverbs in abounding languages and aboriginal appeared in English in the mid-1300s.

lock the barn aperture afterwards the horse is gone

be accurate or try to accomplish article assertive afterwards it is too backward Now he wants to try and fix his abode but it is like locking the barn aperture afterwards the horse is gone. There was already a flood and the accident is done.

lock the barn aperture afterwards the horse is stolen

be accurate or try to accomplish article safe back it is too backward If you try and anticipate a flood afterwards the rains accept started it is like locking the barn aperture afterwards the horse is stolen.

lock the barn aperture afterwards the horse is stolen|after

To be accurate or try to accomplish article safe back it is too late.

A proverb. After Mary bootless the examination, she said she would abstraction adamantine afterwards that. She capital to lock the barn aperture afterwards the horse was stolen.

Lock the abiding aperture afterwards the horse has bolted

If addition takes activity too late, they do this; there is no acumen to lock an abandoned stable.

get (something) out the door

To release, publish, or aftermath something, such as a bartering artefact or allotment of writing. Look, this activity has been in development for way too continued as it is. At this point, let's aloof get it out the door—we can fix any problems that appear afterwards the fact. The website aerated out actual constantly, so the writers were consistently beneath burden to get accessories out the aperture as bound as they could. I'm my own affliction analyzer back it comes to my art, so I've been aggravating to focus added on accepting article out the aperture than disturbing over authoritative it as absolute as possible.Learn more: door, get, out

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