The phrase "a bit shut" is not standard in written English and may be confusing.
It could be used informally to describe something that is slightly closed or not fully open.
Example: "The door was a bit shut, making it hard to see inside the room."
Alternatives: "partially closed" or "slightly ajar".
Yes, I knew we might wander off down some mean streets in a bit – shut up with your nonsense.
If you are feeling, as I am, a bit shut in this fall; if every breath you take is filled with soot, rather than dirt, and the world around you seems painted entirely in shades of grey, then you need a copy of Kristin Kimball's city-slicker memoir "The Dirty Life".
"There's really a desire to see places that are a bit underground shut down," he said.
I have very few words right now because my mouth is a bit glued shut in appreciation, but I assure you I'm swooning inside for Prada.
Examples include Twitter restricting its API uses, Google becoming less open with Android, keeping Google Mobile Services proprietary, Facebook shutting down its friends' data API, Spotify removing third-party apps from the desktop player, etc. Philips could have waited a bit before shutting down third-party light bulb support in order to test the "Friends of Hue" program first.
Others might say it's a bit like shutting the coop door after the hen has scarpered.
"The market may have overcorrected a bit by shutting these down entirely," she says.
Businesses may close a bit earlier or shut briefly for prayers during the day, but otherwise it's normal working hours.
But it seems a bit cavalier to shut down an organization that, as Bill Clinton noted in his letter on Monday, has helped poor farmers in East Africa boost their crop yields, sick people throughout the continent gain access to AIDS medicines, and the devastated and deforested nation of Haiti plant five million trees.
And if you don't want to use this mode (it does affect battery life a bit), you can shut it off.
It's so intense that even the most routine flight is a bit like being shut in a filing cabinet drawer which is then rolled down a mountain during a thunderstorm.
