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turn the key

verb as in lock

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You’ve probably gone through months of paperwork, loan forms, a complicated closing process, and all the not-fun stuff of homebuying, but you’ve at last arrived at that point where you turn the key, close the door behind you, and say with a smile “I’m home.”

Two guys jump into a Kawasaki Ridge and magically sprout magnificent mullets as soon as they turn the key.

From Slate

“My long-term memory is very strong. It only needed me to turn the key on day one for the door to be open and memory after memory after memory and sensation and sensation and feelings all came scuttling back,” said Stewart, 83, in a Zoom interview from his Los Angeles home.

Two missileers spend sometimes days at a time on watch in underground bunkers, ready to turn the key and fire Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles if ordered to do so by the president.

“I don’t expect authorities to turn the key and fix things quickly. The Indian railway system is huge and it will take time to make it more safer. But there needs to be a will,” he said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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