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
"Nothing was wanting but the old gossip with his tedious conciliatory efforts," exclaimed Erasmus, and running out he gave the servant strict orders to show the door to Schindel.
From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Velde, Carl Franz van der
