Open Doors

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🗓️ Idiom: Open Doors (v)

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💬 Meaning

• To create new opportunities or possibilities.
• To make it easier to start something or move forward, often in communication or relationships.

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🧠 Example Sentences

• Learning a second language has opened many doors in my career.
• The cultural training opened doors for smoother teamwork across global offices.
• Understanding local customs can open doors when working with international clients.

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🏛️ Origin

This idiom comes from the image of physically opening a door to enter a new space. In English, it started to be used in the 1800s as a way to describe creating opportunities — as if you were letting someone into a new place or chance in life or work.

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📝 Practice Exercises

1. Fill in the blank:

Learning about Thai culture really __________ for our company’s expansion in Southeast Asia.

Answer

opened doors

2. Choose the correct meaning of “open doors”:

A) To close off opportunities
B) To stop a project
C) To create new opportunities

Answer

C) To create new opportunities

3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:

“Getting to know the local language helped us start new business relationships.” → Change the sentence using: open doors

Answer

Learning the local language opened doors to new business relationships.

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