leave the door open
English
Verb
leave the door open (third-person singular simple present leaves the door open, present participle leaving the door open, simple past and past participle left the door open)
- (idiomatic, often with for or to) To maintain the possibility of something happening in the future.
- 2023 July 26, Jeanna Smialek, “Fed Raises Rates After a Pause and Leaves Door Open to More”, in The New York Times:
- Federal Reserve officials raised interest rates to their highest level in 22 years and left the door open to further action as they continued their 16-month campaign to wrestle inflation lower by cooling the American economy.
- 2023 August 12, “Harry Kane joins Bayern Munich and leaves door open for Spurs return”, in The Guardian:
- Harry Kane has left the door open for a return to Tottenham after completing his £100m move to Bayern Munich.
Further reading
- “leave the door open for”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “leave the door open”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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