🗓️ Idiom: Show Someone the Door (v)
💬 Meaning
- To formally or informally ask someone to leave a job, meeting, or place.
- To dismiss or fire someone, often abruptly or without much explanation.
🧠 Example Sentences
- After the argument with the director, he was quickly shown the door.
- The manager didn’t tolerate insubordination and showed him the door.
- If you miss another deadline, they might show you the door.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
After the heated disagreement, the executive was __________.
Answer
shown the door
2. Choose the correct meaning of “show someone the door”:
A) Give someone a raise
B) Ask someone to leave or fire them
C) Invite someone in
Answer
B) Ask someone to leave or fire them
3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:
“They told the underperforming intern to leave.” → Change the sentence using: show someone the door
Answer
They showed the underperforming intern the door.
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