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Definition of Show the door
1. Verb. Ask to leave. "I was shown the door when I asked for a raise"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Show The Door
Literary usage of Show the door
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Posthumous Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1884)
"... durst not exactly show the door to the lascivious admirer, because he was a
royal prince, and cousin to his Majesty, and I only a royal actress ! ..."
2. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect edited by [Anonymus AC02767386] (1900)
"The illustrations given show the door in the open and the closed position
respectively, and with their aid only a few sentences of description are necessary ..."
3. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Edward Chauncey Baldwin (1906)
"Find the door where the witnesses go in, and show the door-keeper this note for Mr.
Lorry. He will then let you in." "Into the court, sir?" "Into the court. ..."
4. Baptist Missionary Magazine by Massachusetts Baptist Convention, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1853)
"I now requested an explanation of this seeming contradiction ; and added that as
Christ wishes all his disciples to be one, he who can show the door to a ..."
5. The Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1853)
"I now requested an explanation of this seeming contradiction ; and added that as
Christ wishes all his disciples to be one, he who can show the door to a ..."
6. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1910)
"... lay walks leading from the house and may even put a block before the opening
supposed to be the door in such a way as to show the door ajar. ..."
7. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1881)
"show the door in its proper place—the middle of the west side—and before that
entrance place the gravestone of Dean ..."
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