open the floodgates
Example Sentences
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"You get an excellent story - an incredible experience taking place in an amazing event - that's going to open the floodgates, for sure."
From BBC • May 22, 2026
As Novo Nordisk Chief Financial Officer Karsten Munk Knudsen argued in an interview this week, this isn’t a price war, so much as a search for the price points that open the floodgates of access.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
If that was meant to open the floodgates, Ireland were sorely mistaken as Japan controlled the rest of the half.
From Barron's • Nov. 8, 2025
The problem, she said, is that they’re difficult for states to police for validity and “can really open the floodgates to vastly diminished vaccination rates.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2025
When we were a block away from Calhoun Place, a barrage of thunder cracked open the floodgates to the sky.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
