close the door on

Idioms and Phrases

Also, shut the door on . End or exclude from consideration, discussion, or action. For example, His lack of qualifications closed the door on further promotions , or Last quarter's poor sales figures have shut the door on any expansion plans .

Example Sentences

"We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that," he wrote.

From Salon

“We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger,” Schwarzenegger wrote in a long endorsement post on X.

From Los Angeles Times

Here on the ground in Tampa, though, it hasn’t been quite so easy to close the door on Milton.

From Slate

But the UK government's Welsh secretary Jo Stevens seemed to close the door on that idea when she was asked about it in Parliament earlier this month.

From BBC

"Missing people are somebody's loved ones, they're somebody's family, and we don't close the door on that."

From BBC

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