show the door
Example Sentences
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Data show the door then closed two minutes later.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026
Buckhantz is not a guy you show the door — especially when you have a basketball team that is irrelevant and invisible in what many believe is a basketball town.
From Washington Times • Mar. 7, 2019
A forward to replace Rémy, who will leave, and more sprightly replacements for the ones we inevitably show the door to.
From The Guardian • May 18, 2013
In fairness, when all is said and done, I might be going too far to suggest the SEC should, NPR-style, show the door to every employee who embarrasses the agency with horrific judgment.
From BusinessWeek • Mar. 15, 2011
But she proved to him, with her usual eagerness and convincing eloquence, that it was unwise to show the door to such a suitor.
From A Russian Gentleman by Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)
