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shut the door

verb

Definitions

  1. To refuse to consider, remember, accept, or engage in.

    • 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.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shut, the, door.

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