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show the door





VERB
send packing
Synonyms


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

Here and there a few tiles could be lifted, which lighted the garret sufficiently to show the door at the end.

From Old Fritz and the New Era by Langley, Peter




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