door on the
Synonyms
Examples
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Joy and Temperance and Repose Slam the door on the doctor's nose.
In my Spanish cloak, And old slouch hat, And overshoes of felt, And Tyke, my faithful dog, And my knotted hickory cane, I slipped about with a bull's-eye lantern From door to door on the square.
Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.
Whenever I'm out, I have a bit of a yearning to be in my house, to be able to shut the door on the world.