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Swinging door.
This idiom refers to something or someone that can go in two conflicting or opposite directions.
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There is not a significant difference between an inward and outward swinging door, but some users may find that an outward swinging door permits more room to make oneself comfortable before the door shuts.
Then he's off through a swinging door.
Daddy got up and went through the swinging door.
Through the swinging door, the kitchen was unrecognizable.
When people are exiting parked cars, the swinging door can be an unexpected hazard for cyclists.
I was offering duck to anyone who came through the swinging door.
Each time he opened the swinging door of a stall, it seemed to sigh.
The kitchen has updated appliances; off the kitchen is a butler's pantry with a swinging door into the dining room.
They emerge from a sandstorm and pass through the remains of civilization — a few broken walls and a swinging door.
Let me have a large plain!" she called as she went through the swinging door to the kitchen.
In the final shot, a mirror on a swinging door constantly picks up and loses the benumbed Ripley.
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