Meaning of shut the door | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To refuse to consider, remember, accept, or engage in.
   figuratively
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shut, the, door.

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Examples

“Contentment with the past, or the cold conventionality of custom, may no longer shut⟳ the door on science.”

“But I believe⟳ I am justified in shutting the door on this vista of argument.”

“[H]e pulled off his peasant clothes covered with the dust and dirt of that immediate life, washed himself, put⟳ on his "noble court dress," closed the door on the world of toiling and getting, private loving, private hating and personal regrets, sat down with a sigh⟳ of contentment to those wider dreams.”

“Let's shut⟳ the door on conflict.”

“But while Gore has not entirely shut⟳ the door on another run⟳ for President, he insists that he is "not planning" to be a candidate again.”

“Yet Tressel didn't slam the door on the possibility that Wells might still play⟳ in Saturday's game against Ohio University.”

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