barn door

collocation in English

meaningsofbarnanddoor

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barn
noun[C]
uk
/bɑːn/us
/bɑːrn/
a large building on a farm in which animals or hay (= dried grass) and grain ...
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door
noun[C]
uk
/dɔːr/us
/dɔːr/
a flat object that is used to close the entrance of something such as a room or building, or the ...
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(Definition ofbarnanddoorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbarn door

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But such suggestions sound much like the reverse of closing thebarndoorafter the horse has escaped.
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The boarded shed, slidingbarndoorand punched openings scattered freely within the liberating order of timber frame construction are devices evident in the surrounding buildings.
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Thebarndooris wide open, and now we want to bring the harvest in.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I think that thatbarndoorshould be closed.
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Yet we have written into this new legislation a loophole or great bigbarndoorfor the evil to drive through.
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That is as wide open as thebarndoor.
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There is never much point in earning a reputation for being able to hit abarndoorat 10 paces.
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One could probably hit abarndoorwith the old.
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The provision is not so much a loophole as a gapingbarndoor.
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There is no desire to have it as wide as abarndoor.
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They are always pleased to report how often they have hit a particularbarndoor.
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After all, when a gamekeeper pins up a magpie on thebarndoor, he finds that dead magpies do not stop live magpies stealing eggs.
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Prevention is not achieved by nailing the magpie to thebarndoor.
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It might be said that thebarndoorhas just been closed when the horse is in the field, and that would be true to say.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
It also looks lopsided because thebarndooris no longer central under the roof apex.
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At the age of thirteen, she lost the use of both legs when a heavybarndoorfell on her.
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The original widebarndoorhas been filled in with windows and a personnel door.
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He secured thebarndoorwith a piece of planking and fell asleep.
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Instead of the rear tailgate, the steel hardtop utilized a hingedbarndooropening to the back.
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A farmer discovers thebarndooris open and suspects trespassers.
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