Sentence examples for barn door from inspiring English sources

"barn door" is a correct and usable idiom in written English.
It is an expression which means something is too late, or has already been done. For example, "It's too late to close the barn door after the horses have escaped."

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barn door

noun

The large door of a barn.

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Barn door.

They needed to open the barn door.

In short: Horse, meet barn door.

Old tires are repurposed as hinges for the barn door.

You just need to look behind every barn door.

This is a horse and barn door issue.

Others with illuminating derivations are barn door, bazooka and birdseye.

So the barn door is still pretty seriously ajar.

He reached the barnyard and found the barn door bolted shut from the outside.

She swayed into his hand like a cow nudging a barn door.

It was precisely the size and shape of a barn door".

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